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JOHN LEE CARROLL 

Founder and First President (1889-1893) of the Sons of the 
Revolution in the District of Columbia 



BORN SEPTEMBER 30. 1830 — DIED FEBRUARY 27, 1911 



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Exegi monumentum aere perennius 

The Society 

of 

The Sons of the Revolution 

in the 

District of Columbia 




WASHINGTON 
1920 



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COMPILED 

under the Direction of the Board of Managers 
by the following Committee: 

Doctor MARCUS BENJAMIN, Vice President, Chairman 

REEVES T. STRICKLAND, Registrar, and 

CHARLES P. LIGHT. Secretary 



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Corrected to October i, 1920 



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PRESIDENTS 

of the 

SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

in the 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

(Since its incorporation December 18, 1889.) 

Elected. 

1889 John Lee Carroll 

1893 David Josiah Brewer 

1893 Lewis Johnson Davis 

1895 John Grimes Walker 

1898 Green Clay Goodloe 

1899 Walter Wyman 

1900 Archibald Hopkins 
1902 Harry Clay Taylor 

1904 Francis Preston Blair Sands 

1905 Frederic Wolters Huidekoper 

1908 William Stone Abert 

1909 Benjamin Reeves Russell 

1910 Leonard Wood 

1911 Henry Lowry Emilius Johnson 

1912 Randolph Harrison McKim 

1913 Henry May 

1914 Albion Keith Parris 

1915 Gaillard Hunt 

1916 George Richards 



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Retired. 
1893 
1893 
1895 
1898 
1899 
1900 
1902 
1904 
1905 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 



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OFFICERS 

of the 

GENERAL SOCIETY 

General President 

James Mortimer Montgomery 
108 Water Street, New York City. 

General Vice-President 

Charles Curtis Harrison 
of Pennsylvania. 

Second General Vice-President 

Edmund Hawes Talbot 
of Massachusetts. 

General Secretary 

William Libbey 
Princeton, N. J. 

Assistant General Secretary 

_ William Hall Harris, Jr. 
255 Title Building, Baltimore, Md. 

General Treasurer 

George Richards 
Washington, D. C. 

Assistant General Treasurer 

Robert Patterson Benedict 
30 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, 111. 

General Chaplain 

Rev. George Heathcote Hills, D. D. 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 

General Registrar 

John Barber White 
Kansas City, Missouri. 

General Historian 

Orra Eugene Monnette 
619 Citizens National Bank Building, Los Angeles, California. 



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OFFICERS 

(For term expiring December, 1920.) 

President 

General George Richards 
Headquarters U. S. Marine Corps. 

Vice-President 

Dr. Marcus Benjamin 
U. S. National Museum. 

Secretary 

Charles P. Light 
741 15th St. N. W. 

Treasurer 

Edward F. Riggs 
815 15th St. N. W. 

Chaplain 

Rev. John Van Schaick, Jr., D. D. 
1417 Massachusetts Avenue. 

Registrar 

Reeves T. Strickland 
Evans Building. 

Historian 

Rev. William Tayloe Snyder 
1317 19th Street N. W. 

Marshal 

J. Miller Kenyon 
Cosmos Club. 

Board of Managers 

(Terms expire December) 
Dr. S. Brown Muncaster (1920). 

Frank B. Martin (1920). 

Frederick W. M. Graham (1920) 

Henry B. Byrd, Sr. (1920). 

Major Frederick W. Matteson, U. S. A. (1921), 

Walter C. Clephane (1921). 

Charles V. Wheeler (1922). 

Dr. John Van Rensselaer (1922). 

Armistead Peter (1922). 



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TRIENNIAL CONVENTION, GENERAL SOCIETY, 1920 

Delegates : 
Rev. Randolph H. McKim Reeves T. Strickland 

Gaillard Hunt Frederic L. Huidekoper 

Ernest Wilkinson 

Alternates : 

Dr. S. B. Muncaster 

Lieutenant Colonel Charles L. Frailey, U. S. A. 

Dr. Marcus Benjamin 

Charles P. Light 

STANDING COMMITTEES 

Extension 
Ben DeM. Miller, Chairman 
Captain Lee W. Wright, U. S. M. C, V ice-Chairman. 
with the following additional members: 
Henry B. Byrd, Sr. Hugh M. Southgate 

Wm. R. Chapline Rev. Wm. T. Snyder 

Ralph W. Lee J. Miller Kenyon 

Harry M. Wheeler Albion K. Parris 

Eugene C. Copenhaver Harry L. Dunwoody 

Captain Edwin T. Pollock, John J. Higgins 

U. S. N. H. Ralph Burton 

Publicity 

Albion K. P arris, Chairman 
Dr. Adolphus B. Bennett, Jr. Charles T. Tittmann 

Church Service 
Dr. Marcus Benjamin, Chairman 
Thomas W. Lockwood, Jr. Dr. Ralph Jenkins 

A. K. Parris Beale R. Howard 

Ex-Officio 

General George Richards, President 

Rev. John Van Schaick, Jr., Chaplain 



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Finance 

Major Frederick W. Matteson, U. S. A., Chairman 
Frank B. Martin Charles V. Wheeler 

Admissions 

Reeves T. Strickland, Chairman 

Theodore C. Johnson Robert R. Bennett 

Stewards 

Major Alexander M. Watson, U. S. M. C, Chairman 

Nevil Monroe Hopkins J. Miller Kenyon Clarence A. Aspinwall 

Color Guard 
Henry May Hampson Gary 

Dr. Ralph Jenkins William P. Meredith 

George Richards Edward F. Riggs 

Americanization 
Henry B. Byrd, Sr. Barry Bulkley 

William F. Ham William V. Cox 

Rev. John Van Schaick, Jr. 

Historical Documents and Entertainments 
Gaillard Hunt, Chairman 
Ernest Wilkinson John C. Copenhaver 

Archibald Hopkins Frank W. Hackett 

Rev. William Tayloe Snyder, Historian (Ex-Officio) 




BIRTHPLACE OF THE SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 
IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, DECEMBER 3, 1889 



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THE PROCEEDINGS AT A STATED 
MEETING OF THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 
IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

APRIL 19, 1917 

The Mason House, 1606 Twentieth Street, N. W ., 
Washington, D. C. 

The meeting was convened at 4 o'clock p. M. with Brigadier- 
General George Richards, U. S. M. C, President of the Society, in 
the Chair. 

General Richards: I will ask the Rev. Dr. Smith to deliver 
the invocation. 

INVOCATION 

By the Rev. George Williamson Smith, D. D. 

Almighty God, Father of the spirits of all flesh, Whose way is in 
the sea, Whose paths are in the great waters, and Whose footsteps 
are not known, Who brought our fathers through the great deep to 
a land which Thou has preserved for them through the long genera- 
tions, that thev should found and establish a state built upon the 
principles of freedom and equality which were revealed by our Lord 
and Savior, Jesus Christ, and Who hath given to Thy servants the 
sea for a rampart and a defense, grant unto the President and Con- 
gress and all authorities to whom the destiny of this Nation is en- 
trusted, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, that they may per- 
ceive and know what things they ought to do for the security of our 
land and its institutions, and also make them strong and powerful to 
discharge their duties dutifully and justly. 

And grant unto us who are here assembled for the aid and further- 
ance of the work of those, Thy servants, and to all kindred associa- 
tions, a ready mind, a clear understanding and a pure purpose, to per- 
sist in all good works for the welfare of our country, that Thy will 
may be done upon earth for all generations. 

Look with favor, we beseech Thee, upon the Navy of the United 
States, and grant that all in authority and under authority may dis- 
charge their respective duties acceptably to Thee. Bless their service 
for the security and welfare of our country. 

Let Thy people rest in peace and safety upon the sea, upon their 
lawful vocations. 

May we ever act to the glory of Thy name before all the peoples 
of the world. 

All this we ask in the name of Him Who hath taught us to pray. 

(The Rev. Dr. Smith then led the audience in repeating the Lord's 
prayer). 



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ADDRESS BY GENERAL RICHARDS 

The Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia are assem- 
bled here with the General Officers of their National Society, the 
representatives of the Navy League and invited guuests, to com- 
memorate their organization. We are to dedicate in the memory of 
our founders a tablet marking the house where our initial meeting 
took place. Here, 28 years ago, lived Lieutenant Commander Theo- 
dorus Bailey Myers Mason of the United States Navy. His memory 
the Sons of the Revolution shall forever cherish ; his mind conceived 
our origin, his thought was translated into deeds. Appointed to the 
Navy in 1864, his record of thirty-five years is replete with evidence 
of marked ability, great professional attainments, devotion to duty and 
success in every field of naval endeavor. The Emperor of Brazil con- 
ferred on him the Order of the Rose ; the King of Italy awarded him 
a silver medal ; the New York Benevolent and Life Saving Institution 
a gold medal, all for saving life at the risk of his own. The Presi- 
dent of the United States and two Secretaries of the Navy com- 
mended him for valuable services to his country. Honored at home 
and abroad, this patriot descendant of sires of the Revolution assem- 
bled his friends on an evening historical to us in the winter of 1889, to 
form a Society consecrated to true Americanism, to foster the mem- 
ories of the Revolutionary period, to inspire in the community a 
respect for the principles for which our fathers contended. On 
this day, in recalling the circumstances of our origin, let us not forget 
for what we were established. 

One hundred and forty-two years ago today, on April 19, 1775, at 
the Battle of Lexington, American blood was first shed in the cause 
of liberty. This was one phase of a great movement involving the 
destinies of the human race which began with the Reformation in 
Europe in the Sixteenth Century and continues to these times. To- 
day the American Nation, the oldest of Republics, stands united with 
all other great Democracies of the world, including, Thank God, the 
new-born Russian Democracy, in the self-same cause for which our 
fathers gave the fullest measure of sacrifice and devotion. Here on 
American shores their blood purchased for all mankind religious, 
intellectual, civic and economic freedom. Here they established a 
form of government, where the people, all powerful, were not sub- 
jects but citizens; where the State was created for the people, respons- 
ible to them as their servants. This institution, the best system of 
free representative government the world has ever seen, is now sub- 
jected to the great test of war. Upon this generation falls the duty 
of preserving what has been bequeathed us. Arrayed against us are 
the hosts of other nations, whose instituted government is different 
from ours. They are the great autocracies. With them power 
rests not with their people but with their privileged few, responsible 
only to the conscience of their ruler. In their system the State comes 




ARCHIBALD HOPKINS 

Past President (1900-1902) (Surviving Founder) 



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first and is everything; the people are its "subjects," its servants or 
slaves, trained only to obey. This autocratic system, backed by effici- 
ently organized force has pitted itself against free governments, against 
democracies. This war is to determine if civilization can permanently 
progress with the people under one system slaves, and under the other 
free men; that issue is clear and distinct. The spokesman of the 
world's free people, our President, has sounded the call to arms! 
This war is one to save our institutions. The cause of human liberty 
must either be advanced in this ordeal by battle, or be crushed abso- 
lutely. The world will become all the one thing or all the other, 
all slave or all free. 

Sons of the Revolution, that priceless inheritance purchased for 
mankind by the blood of our fathers is not ours; we hold it only in 
trust with a solemn obligation to pass it on to our children and our 
childrens' children, not impaired but enriched. The autocratic form 
of government must disappear. Today, before this consecrated home 
of our founder, more recently re-dedicated to patriotism through the 
noble work of the Woman's Section of the Navy League, let us renew 
our pledge to the purpose for which we were ordained. The institu- 
tions our fathers created must be vindicated. Let us take inspiration 
from words of the immortal Lincoln "and highly resolve * * * that 
government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not 
perish from the earth." 

(Followed by applause). 

Ladies and Gentlemen, it gives me pleasure to present Colonel 
Archibald Hopkins (applause), the only survivor of the founders of 
our Society, who will describe the origin of the Society of the Sons 
of the Revolution in the District of Columbia. 

ADDRESS BY COLONEL HOPKINS 

A little more than 28 years ago on the 3rd of December, 1889, at 
the call of Lieutenant Commander Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason, 
a few gentlemen met in this room to form a District of Columbia 
Society of the Sons of the Revolution. General Nicholas Longworth 
Anderson was in the chair. The first business transacted was the 
election of officers, and the following were chosen: President, John 
Lee Carroll ; Vice-President, Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason ; Board 
of Managers, Nicholas Longworth Anderson, Archibald Hopkins, 
and Daniel Morgan Taylor; Secretary-Treasurer, and Registrar, 
Arthur H. Dutton. 

It seems not inappropriate on this occasion when a tablet commemo- 
rating the founding of our Society is unveiled to say a few words of 
the men then present who are no longer with us. 



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The first president, John Lee Carroll, Governor of Maryland, was 
a great-grandson of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. He was in every 
way worthy of his patriotic and illustrious ancestry. Of distin- 
guished presence, excellent ability, and singularly attractive manners, 
he represented the highest ideal of what an American gentlemen can 
hope to be. After brief service as our president, he was elected to 
the presidency of the general society and his long incumbency there 
gave it increased prestige and success. High minded and patriotic, 
with an enviable record of unselfish service to the State and to his 
fellow men, he won wide respect, admiration and affection in his life 
and left behind him added luster to the name he bore. 

The first vice-president, prime mover in the formation of our 
Society, was Lieutenant Mason in whose former home we are gath- 
ered. He came of distinguished New York lineage in combination 
with some of the best strains of New England and old Spain. It was 
significant of his self-reliant character that he made his way to Wash- 
ington alone, introduced himself to the Secretary of the Navy and 
secured from him an appointment to Annapolis where he graduated. 
When but twenty years old he jumped overboard at Rio and rescued 
two sailors, for which the Emperor of Brazil sent him the Order 
of the Rose. During his service in the Navy he saved many lives and 
Victor Emanuel gave him a silver medal for having gone with three 
sailors into the hold of an Italian ship which was on fire, loaded with 
powder and extinguished the flames. Mr. Mason had a varied ser- 
vice, of cruises in almost every sea, as instructor at Annapolis, as 
twice special aide to the Secretary of the Navy, and two tours of duty 
at the White House. He was the originator of the Office of Naval 
Intelligence and the first officer in charge, and he wrote and published 
a standard work on Ordnance. Mr. Mason possessed a charming 
and most attractive personality, combining to a rare degree an almost 
feminine grace and gentleness with robust manly virtues and conspicu- 
ous courage. He gave himself whole-heartedly to his duties as an 
officer and won highest merit for his zeal, intelligence and efficiency 
from all with whom he served. 

It was a most happy thought of the gracious and generous lady, his 
sister, and in complete accord with his ardent patriotism to devote his 
home to training young people to share his love of country and to fit 
themselves for its service, in time of need. Fifteen hundred are now 
under instruction. Long may it stand to train the young for such 
service and to perpetuate the memory of him who dwelt within its 
walls and of her who has dedicated it to so noble a purpose. 

Nicholas Longworth Anderson came of Revolutionary stock and 
was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. He was a grandson of 
Richard Clough Anderson, a distinguished officer of the Continental 
Line, who took an active part in the principal battles of the Revolution, 
was wounded at Savannah, reached the rank of Colonel, and was 



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aide-de-camp for Lafayette at Yorktown. He was an original mem- 
ber of the Society of the Cincinnati. His grandson Nicholas was a 
graduate of Harvard and a lawyer. When Fort Sumter, which was 
commanded by his uncle, Robert Anderson, was fired on he enlisted 
and was made adjutant, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the Sixth 
Ohio Volunteers. He took part in the campaigns of Buell, Rose- 
crans, and Thomas, was three times wounded, and was brevetted 
brigadier and major-general for distinguished gallantry in action. 
General Anderson had a natural genius for command and early won 
the confidence and affection of his men and in his later life made 
legions of friends wherever he went. He was a cultivated gentleman, 
scholarly in his tastes, active, alert, and full of patriotic interest in 
public affairs, of a generous and genial disposition, an incisive ready 
talker, and a favorite in every social circle. His memory is warmly 
cherished by many friends. 

Colonel Daniel Morgan Taylor was a great-great grandson of 
Colonel John Neville, Fourth Virginia Continental Infantry; also 
great grandson of Lieutenant Colonel Presley Neville, aide-de-camp 
to Generals Lincoln and Lafayette; also of Lieutenant Charles Sims, 
Second Virginia Continental Infantry, and a great-great grandson of 
that sturdy and famous soldier, General Daniel Morgan, the rifle- 
man, whose name he bore. He graduated at West Point, entered the 
artillery, and was transferred to the Ordnance, where he reached the 
rank of Colonel, having served at several arsenals and been in com- 
mand of those at Augusta, Georgia, and Augusta, Maine. Colonel 
Taylor was a most accomplished and efficient officer of the same class 
as his distinguished brother, Admiral Henry C. Taylor. He won 
high commendation throughout his thirty-eight years of faithful ser- 
vice and was respected and beloved by his associates and a wide circle 
of friends. 

No organization can fail to take pride in such a list of founders. 
They were every one descendants of patriots and were themselves 
patriots who gave gladly to their country the best that was in them, 
and it is only as their spirit and readiness to serve survives and is 
maintained that we can look for the permanence of the Republic 
which our fathers founded. 

General Richards : The first act of the Sons of the Revolution 
in the District of Columbia after its organization was to give ex- 
pression to its desire for a closer union with similar Societies in the 
States of New York and Pennsylvania. Delegates, appointed to con- 
fer with representatives of these Societies with that object, met at 
Philadelphia April 12, 1890, where the fundamental principles for 
the organization of the General Society, Sons of the Revolution, were 
determined. Mr. Clifford Stanley Sims, of New Jersey, was desig- 
nated to draft a Constitution. This compact received immediately 
the unanimous approval of the three Societies and Delegates were 



14 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

appointed to perfect the organization of the proposed National body. 

At Chamberlain's Hotel, in the city of Washington, twenty-seven 
years ago today, these Delegates met in our first General Convention. 
Mr. Frederick Samuel Tallmage, President of the New York Society, 
was the presiding officer. The General Society, Sons of the Revo- 
lution, there sprang into existence. John Lee Carroll, already the 
President of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia, 
was the first General President, and James Mortimer Montgomery, 
of the New York Society, was elected at that Convention Assistant 
General Secretary. 

Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me much pleasure to present Mr. 
Montgomery*, who is now the General President of our National body. 
That organization that has grown today to include thirty-two sepa- 
rate State Societies, with a total membership of over 8,000 descendants 
of Revolutionary Patriots. 

Mr. Montgomery: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: It 
is my privilege to express in behalf of the general society our apprecia- 
tion of your gracious permission to mark this spot, the home of our 
brother, an accomplished gentleman and patriot. 

The ancestors of Commander Mason served in our war of the 
Revolution, the war of 1812, the Mexican and Civil wars. Very 
few officers have left a record of more efficient service than Comman- 
der Mason, a man of charming personality, ever courteous. "None 
knew him but to love, none knew him but to praise." 

Mr. President, in marking the birthplace of this Society, I pay a 
fitting tribute to those men, to whose unfailing devotion we owe so 
much. They little realized at that initial meeting they were planting 
a seed that would bear perennial fruit and become no small part in 
forming one means that has acted in enlarging and preserving our 
national patriotism. They builded better than they knew. 

As you have said, sir, you were the first Society to organize, thus 
enabling us to form our General Society, today stretching from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific. 

Our first Society was organized in that long room in Fraunces' 
Tavern, which Mr. Wetmore has described as the scene of that 
pathetic and impressive party, when, with their cheeks wet with men's 
rare tears, they bade Washington and his friends farewell. Today, 
not only in that room, but in each of the meeting places of our Society 
the country over, we, the sons of those who then parted, meet not to 
part, but once again to work together for the same sacred cause, and 
shoulder to shoulder and hand in hand and heart to heart we fall in 
and move forward with hopes as bright as the stars in the sky, and a 
faith as deep as the sea and as abiding as the firmament. 

Colonel Thompson, Sir, it is my privilege, on behalf of the General 
Society, to present this tablet to you as President of the Navy League 
of the United States. 



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Whereupon, upon the invitation of Mr. Montgomery, Mrs. Cassie 
Myers Mason Julian-James, sister of the founder of the Society, un- 
veiled the tablet, while the Junior Defense Guard sang the Star 
Spangled Banner, the audience standing. 

General Richards: In our efforts to achieve the purposes for 
which we are instituted, it has been the policy of the Sons of the 
Revolution steadfastly to seek the cooperation of other organizations 
with similar objects. 

I am happy, indeed, to testify that the officers of the Navy League 
have cordially and unselfishly assisted us in our patriotic duties. This 
was especially marked when, interested in the cause of National Pre- 
paredness, we sought the influence of that silent power upon which 
it has been found all true Government finally depends — the power of 
enlightened public opinion. We have with us today the President 
of the Navy League. I am sure you will all be delighted in hearing 
a word from Colonel Robert M. Thompson. 

Colonel Thompson: Mr. Chairman, and comrades: The Navy 
League accepts with great pleasure the tablet which you have here 
dedicated to the memory of the founders of your society, and in the 
name of the Navy League, and in the name of the Women's Section 
of the Navy League, and may I say, in the name of Mrs. Cassie Myers 
Mason Julian-James, I accept the tablet, and I promise you that noth- 
ing ever done in this house shall reflect upon the Society which has 
put that tablet there. 

A patriotic society such as yours has in these days much to do. We, 
whose memory goes back to the great contest between the states, know 
of what patriotism, of what sacrifice, of what action, this country and 
its citizens are capable. We are going to be called upon in the years 
soon to come to make sacrifices. We are making them. We are 
going to be called upon to take great and serious action, to defend the 
great cause of liberty. We will take it, and when we enter actively 
into the war, the aggressor will know we are there! 

Once more I thank you, and thank you and this Society for this 
tablet, and for this great dedication of this house to the work that was 
so dear to your brother. 

General Richards: I am going to ask the Rev. Dr. Smith 
to deliver the benediction. 

The blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy 
Spirit be amongst you and remain with you always, Amen. 

(Announcement was made that Mrs. Julian-James would be very 
glad to receive her friends and the members of the Society in the 
adjoining house, whereupon, adjournment was taken at 4.30 P. M.) 



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SONS OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE DISTRICT OF 
COLUMBIA 



The Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia was insti- 
ted as a Society, March 11, 1889. Among its founders were John 
Lee Carroll, Samuel Rhoads Franklin, Nicholas Longsworth Ander- 
son, John Grimes Walker, Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason, Richard 
Rush, Daniel Morgan Taylor, John Schuyler Crosby, Arthur Henry 
Dutton, and Archibald Hopkins. These gentlemen, residents of the 
District of Columbia, were either members of, or applicants for admis- 
sion to, the Societies of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New 
York or in the State of Pennsylvania, the only Societies styled "Sons 
of the Revolution" then in existence. 

The minutes of a special meeting of the Sons of the Revolution, 
held at Fraunces Tavern, New York City, on April 11, 1889, at 4.00 
p. M., show the following letter from the founders of our Society to 
have been there read: 

"Washington, D. C. 
March 11, 1889. 

We, the undersigned applicants for membership in the Sons of the 
Revolution, being non-residents of the State of New York and all 
residents in the District of Columbia, request authority to incorporate 
and organize an auxiliary branch of the Society in the District of 
Columbia. 

David D. Porter * R. D. Evans 

John Lee Carroll J. G. Walker 

C. R. P. Rodgers Theodorus B. M. Mason 
S. R. Franklin Richard Rush 

N. L. Anderson * W. K. Van Reypen 

D. M. Taylor Col. John Schuyler Crosby 

To the Board of Managers, 

Sons of the Revolution, New York." 

Major Asa Bird Gardiner said: "I move, sir, the admission of the 
auxiliary branch in the District of Columbia." 

Mr. Austin Huntington said: "I beg to second that motion to 
admit them into full fellowship in the Society of the Sons of the 
Revolution." 

Put to a vote and carried. 

The Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia, as thus 
instituted, became incorporated under the laws of the District of 
Columbia on December 18, 1889, for social, benevolent, patriotic and 

* In the minutes these names have a lead pencil line through them. 



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other purposes. The incorporators were Theodorus Bailey Myers 
Mason, Daniel Morgan Taylor, and Arthur Henry Dutton. The 
initial meeting of the Society was held December 3, 1889, at the resi- 
dence of Lieutenant Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason, 1606 Twentieth 
Street, N. W., in the City of Washington. At this meeting the Con- 
stitution of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York was 
adopted as the Constitution of our Society, and the election of officers 
for the year 1890 ensued. John Lee Carroll was elected President; 
Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason was elected Vice-President; 
Arthur Henry Dutton was elected Secretary-Treasurer, and Regis- 
trar. Messrs. Nicholas Longworth Anderson, Archibald Hopkins 
and Daniel Morgan Taylor were elected as the first Board of Man- 
agers. At a meeting of April 3, 1890, two additional members of the 
Board of Managers were authorized, and at a later meeting of the 
Board, Alexander Brown Legare was appointed Treasurer; Gaillard 
Hunt, Registrar and Historian, and four additional members were 
added to the Board of Managers. 

The first public meeting of the Society was at a commemorative 
dinner held at Chamberlins, on February 21, 1890. Representatives 
from both the New York and the Pennsylvania Societies attended this 
dinner. Of the nineteen members and guests which attended this 
dinner, but two remain on our rolls today, namely, Messrs. Gaillard 
Hunt and Hugh Swinton Legare. 

The first Year Book, or Register, of the Society was printed May 
15, 1900. It contains the names of 42 members; of these but six are 
numbered on cur rolls today, namely, Colonel Archibald Hopkins, 
Messrs. Gaillard Hunt, Alexander Brown Legare, Hugh Swinton 
Legare, Francis Preston Blair Sands, and Franklin Steele. 

The membership of the Society steadily increased until in 1894, five 
years after its institution, it consisted of 209 members. Its member- 
ship at this publication, October 1, 1920, is 277. 

Very early in the World War long before its issues were clearly de- 
fined in America, when the matter of our Natonal Preparedness 
was looked upon either as an academic question or one for political 
controversy, the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia 
turned its attention to this interesting subject. At its Stated Meeting 
for November, 1915, Mr. Gaillard Hunt, President, reminded the 
members that that meeting marked the 139th anniversary of the cap- 
ture of Fort Washington, November 16, 1776, the last of the outer 
defenses of New York City. This event of the Revolution he said 
was one we could not celebrate, but we could at least remember it 
and commemorate it as a gallant defense by meagrely equipped and 
otherwise unprepared American soldiers. Mr. F. L. Huidekoper 
then delivered a brief address on the subject of preparedness for war, 
whereupon a committee was appointed to draft resolutions memorial- 



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izing the President and the Congress of the United States to adopt 
measures to insure to the country adequate defense. The interest 
and cooperation of the several State Societies and the General Society, 
Sons of the Revolution, was solicited. As a result of this, the General 
Society, Sons of the Revolution, became the first of kindred patriotic 
societies to go on record in support of these very necessary measures. 

In its endeavor more effectively to play in these times a role worthy 
of our forebears, cooperation with kindred societies has been the guid- 
ing policy of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia. 
By the preamble to its Constitution, this Society was instituted among 
other things "to promote and assist in the proper celebration" of cer- 
tain National Holidaj^s. The Sons of the Revolution in the District 
of Columbia have fulfilled this duty by promoting and assisting in 
such celebrations with other patriotic societies whose members are of 
Revolutionary descent. These Joint Annual Celebrations, more par- 
ticularly that of Washington's Birthday, have come to be regarded as 
the official Celebration in the City of Washington of that National 
Holiday. 

The most noteworthy of these Joint Annual Celebrations was that 
of the one hundred and eighty-sixth anniversary of George Washing- 
ton's birth, held in the Liberty Hut at the Terminal Station Plaza on 
the morning of February 22, 1918. In the most inclement of weather 
fully fourteen thousand people were gathered to witness these exercises. 
James Mortimer Montgomery, General President of the Sons of the 
Revolution, presided. The speakers included M. Jules J. Jusserand, 
the French Ambassador, and Lord Reading, the British Ambassador. 
The principal address was by Senator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio. 
Lee's eulogy on Washington was read, while the music for the occa- 
sion was furnished by the United States Marine Band, and a chorus 
of two thousand voices lead by Mr. Homer Rodeheaver. An inter- 
national medley was sung composed alternately of verses from the 
hymns "America" and "God Save the King," all to the one air of the 
British National Anthem. 

The Society has also held an Annual Celebration of Independence 
Day, in cooperation with the local Society of the Sons of the American 
Revolution. These Exercises are conducted at the foot of Washing- 
ton Monument and are intended especially for the benefit of recently 
naturalized citizens of the United States. The members of these 
two Societies as descendants of immigrants of pre-Revolutionary days 
extend on these occasions a welcome to those new citizens. At the 
Exercises conducted on July 4, 1918, the Societies were honored by 
the attendance of armed sailors of France from the French Cruiser 
"La Gloire" under command of their own officers. 

In 1915 Colonel John Van R. Hoff suggested the propriety of the 
Society holding special religious services annually. This was favor- 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 19 



ably considered by the Board of Managers at its meeting on May 27, 
1915, and a Standing Committee was appointed to carry out the 
arrangements. Since then these services have been conducted annually 
alternating in two prominent church edifices of the City of Washing- 
ton, the present practice being to observe the Sunday nearest to the 
Anniversary of George Washington's Birthday. 

ANNUAL SERMONS PREACHED BEFORE 
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOCIETY, SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

November 21, 1915, Church of the Epiphany, 

Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, D. D., LLD., 

Bishop of Southern Brazil. 
February 18, 1917, St. John's Episcopal Church, 

Rev. Romilly F. Humphreys, 

Baltimore, Maryland. 
February 17, 1918, Church of the Epiphany, 

Rev. Roland Cotton Smith, D. D., 

Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church. 
February 16, 1919, St. John's Episcopal Church, 

Rt. Rev. Daniel S. Thomas, D. D., 

Bishop of Wyoming. 
February 22, 1920, Church of the Epiphany, 

Rev. Z. B. T. Phillips, D. D., St. Peter's Church, 

St. Louis, Missouri. 

More recently this Society undertook a public celebration of 
a date not mentioned in its Constitution. On September 6, 1918, it 
joined other Societies in the celebration of the 161st Anniversary of 
the birth of the Marquis de Lafayette. These Exercises were most 
appropriately held at the Lafayette Monument in the Square in the 
City of Washington that bears the name of that illustrious French- 
man. Very eloquent addresses were made there by the Honorable 
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, and by the Count de Cham- 
brun, of the French Embassy, himself a great grandson of La Fayette. 
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson and representatives from all of 
our Allies in the war were among the honored guests. Tributes of 
flowers from the White House, the French Embassy and the partici- 
pating Societies were laid upon the monument by the President of the 
Sons of the Revolution. Inspiring and uplifting messages were read 
from President Poincaire and from Marshal Joffre. As daylight 
faded into eventide 'mid strains of patriotic music by the United States 
Marine Band the audience dispersed, thrilled by an experience that 
did much toward emphasizing the usefulness of such patriotic Societies 
as the Sons of the Revolution. 

The Society has held each year a prize essay competition partici- 
pated in by the pupils of all public and private schools in the District 



20 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

of Columbia. The topic selected is one related in Revolutionary 
history. The prize is a gold medal suitably inscribed and presented 
at the Joint Celebration of George Washington's Birthday. Presi- 
dent Wilson has usually handed these medals to the successful com- 
petitor with a brief address. In 1918, however, this duty was per- 
formed by Lord Reading, the newly appointed Ambassador of Great 
Britain. At the Joint Exercises, February 22, 1919, the medal 
was presented by the President of the Society, General George Rich- 
ards, while at like Exercises on February 23, 1920, the French Ambas- 
sador M. Jules J. Jusserand performed this duty. The successsful 
competitors for the past six years follow: 

1914 Clarence J. Rammling, McKinley Manual Training School. 

1915 Walter L. Smoot, Central High School. 

1916 Miss Ina M. Lawrence, Eastern High School. 

1917 Harold F. Stose, Central High School. 

1918 T- Francis Cotter, Central High School. 

1919 Willis T. Ballinger, Central High School. 

1920 Charles Lanham, Eastern High School. 

Under authority of a resolution by the Society at its meeting of 
April 19, 1915, a Committee of which Col. Henry May was Chair- 
man was appointed for the purpose of organizing a color guard of like 
character to that of the Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania. 

The Society, for the Color Guard, has collected the following flags: 

The National Flag of the United States, presented by Mr. Thomas 
W. Lockwood, Jr., of the Society. 

The Flag of the General Society of the Sons of the Revolution, 
purchased by the Society. 

The Flag of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia, 
presented by Col. Henry May of the Society. 

The Royal Bourbon Flag of France, presented by Mrs. William 
Cumming Story, President General, National Society, Daughters of 
the American Revolution. 

The First Flag of the Continental Navy, presented by Mrs. George 
Barnett on behalf of the Marine Corps Recruiting Service. 

The Grand Union, or Cambridge, Flag, presented by Mr. Gran- 
ville Carter Bradford, of the Society. 

The Society following its annual meeting of December 12, 1916, 
where a very illuminating address was delivered by Mr. William V. 
Cox, actively interested itself in the enactment of legislation to pre- 
vent in the District of Columbia the desecration of the American 
Flag. As a result of this endeavor, the legislation desired which was 
then before the House of Representatives passed the Senate of the 
United States on February 2, 1917, and shortly afterwards received 
the approval of the President of the United States. 

Almost with the institution of the District Society, the question of 
instituting a National Organization or a General Society of the Sons 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 21 

of the Revolution was considered. The large increase in member- 
ship in the New York, Pennsylvania, and District of Columbia Socie- 
ties, together with a desire for a closer bond of association between 
these Societies, resulted in the appointment of a committee, or dele- 
gates, to consider the feasibility of such a union. A conference of 
these delegates occurred at Philadelphia on February 12, 1890, our 
Society being there represented by Mr. Arthur Henry Dutton. 
There the fundamental principles for the organization of the General 
Society were decided upon, and Mr. Clifford Stanley Sims, at the 
time a Justice of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals, and 
who for many years had been President of the New Jersey Society of 
the Cincinnati, was designated to draft a Constitution for the Gen- 
eral Society of the Sons of the Revolution. Judge Sims took as a 
model the Constitution of the Order of the Cincinnati. Within less 
than two months after Judge Sims' submission of this Constitution, it 
was unanimously approved and ratified by the three original Societies 
of New York, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. In the 
minutes of a meeting of the Board of Managers of the Sons of the 
Revolution, as held April 9, 1890, in New York City, the following 
entry appears : 

The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Dutton stating that the Society in 
the District of Columbia had unanimously ratified the compact with Pennsyl- 
vania and New York at a regular meeting of the Society, held on April 3rd, 
and requesting that a day be appointed for a meeting of the delegates of the 
three Societies to be held in Washington for the purpose of electing General 
Officers. On motion it was resolved that the delegates from this Society 
should arrange to meet with the delegates from Pennsylvania and the Dis- 
trict of Columbia in Washington on April 19, 1890. 

The delegates from these Societies were at once appointed to meet 
in general convention at Washington, D. C, to establish the more 
perfect union contemplated in the Constitution drawn by Judge Sims. 
On April 19, 1890, at Chamberlin's, in the City of Washington, these 
delegates met in convention. Mr. Frederick Samuel Tallmadge, at 
the time President of the New York Society, presided. The General 
Society, Sons of the Revolution, became there established. At this 
Convention the following gentlemen were elected as officers of the 
General Society: President General, Ex-Governor John Lee Carroll, 
of Maryland ; General Vice-President, Major William Wayne, of 
Pennsylvania ; General Secretary, James Mortimer Montgomery, of 
New York; Assistant General Secretary, Timothy Matlock Chees- 
man, of New York; General Treasurer, Richard McCall Cadwala- 
der, of Pennsylvania ; Assistant General Treasurer, Arthur Henry 
Dutton, of District of Columbia; General Chaplain, Daniel Cony 
Weston, D. D., of New York. From these beginnings there develop- 
ed the magnificent Society we know and admire today, a Society at one 
time pronounced as "the most prosperous, united, stable and patriotic 
organization of our country." 



22 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



[Acts of Incorporation No. 5, pp. 66, et seq.~\ 

THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

Certificate of Incorporation Recorded December 18, 1889, 

1:45 P-m. 



We, the undersigned Theo. M. B. Mason, S. M. Taylor and 
Arthur Henry Dutton, being persons of full age, all of whom are 
citizens of the United States and a majority of whom are citizens of 
the District of Columbia, pursuant to and in conformity with sections 
five hundred and forty-four, five hundred and forty-five, five hundred 
and forty-nine, five hundred and fifty, and five hundred and fifty-two 
of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of 
Columbia as amended by the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to 
amend the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia and 
for other purposes," approved April 23, 1884; do hereby associate our- 
selves together for literary purposes and mutual improvement, and we 
do hereby certify: First, That the name by which our said Society 
shall be known in law is "The Sons of the Revolution in the District 
of Columbia." Second, That the term for which our said Society 
is organized is perpetual. Third, That the particular business and 
objects of our said Society (the members of which are to be those only 
who are lineal descendants of those soldiers, sailors, and officials of the 
Civil Government who served in the Cause of American Independence 
during the War of the Revolution between the years 1775 and 1783) 
are to foster the memories of the Revolutionary period, and by social 
intercourse to encourage the spirit and sentiments, and by meetings 
and otherwise, to commemorate the patriotic deeds of our ancestors; 
and to gather, publish and preserve the family records and personal 
memories of those who participated in the war for American Inde- 
pendence ; and that the operations of our said Society are to be carried 
on within the District of Columbia. Fourth, That the number of 
Directors or Managers of our said Society for the first year beginning 
with the date of these presents, is six. 

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands this eight- 
teenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
hundred and eighty-nine. 

Theo. B. M. Mason, 

D. M. Taylor, 

Arthur Henry Dutton. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 23 



Witness : 

Thad K. Sailer. 
District of Columbia, ss: 

Be it remembered, on the 18th day of December, A. D. 1889, before 
me, Thad K. Sailer, a Notary Public, appeared the above-named 
Theo. B. M. Mason, D. M. Taylor, and Arthur Henry Dutton, 
persons known to me to be the same described in the foregoing certi- 
cate, and they severally before me made and signed the said certificate 
and acknowledged the same to be their certificate, act and deed. 

Witness my hand and notarial seal the date above written. 

Thad K. Sailer, 
[seal] Notary Public. 




WARREN GAMALIEL HARDIN3 
UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM OHIO 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 25 



ADDRESS 

Delivered on February 22, 1918, at Washington s Birthday celebration 
before the Sons of the Revolution and Sons and Daughters of the 
American Revolution, in Washington, D. C, by Hon. Warren G. 
Harding, United States Senator from the State of Ohio. 

Mr. President, Madam President, Your Excellencies, Sons and 
Daughters of the Revolution, ladies and gentlemen, my country- 
men: I have been sensing the atmosphere of this patriotic occasion 
and the significance of this celebration. There is an interesting 
suggestion in the representation here to-day which gives assur- 
ances of that fraternity of nations which is to hold justice and our 
ideals of civilization secure to the world. 

Here, on my right, is the ambassador from Italy, whose people 
discovered us; on my left is the new ambassador from Great 
Britain, whose people largely developed us; and nearby sits the 
ambassador of France, whose people helped to deliver us, all 
joining us of America in a tribute to the beloved Father of the 
Republic, and consecrating all to the common cause of liberty 
and justice and the security of national life. 

It is impossible to resist the impelling thought to speak as an 
eligible son of the Revolution and say what I know is in your 
hearts to these official representatives of the nations with whom 
we are committed in all conscience and righteousness. 

To you, Mr. Ambassador, I pledge you America's sympathy 
and admiration, in the sacrifices made and the courageous battle 
which Italy is giving to our common enemy. And to you, Lord 
Reading, I utter what I know to be felt and yet little expressed, 
our reverent regard for Great Britain's unselfish and unalterable 
resolution to fight to the death for the sanctity of international 
compacts. And to you, Mr. Ambassador, I speak the love and 
admiration of America for noble and heroic France, who helped 
us establish the very liberty for which your sons are dying to-day. 
In such a fraternity as you and our own people make, I find the 
highest assurance mankind may have for the future security of 
the civilized world. 

It is good to meet and drink at the fountains of wisdom inherited 
from the founding fathers of the Republic. It is a fitting time for 
retrospection and introspection when we face a problem to-day 
even greater than the miracle they wrought. The comparison 
does not belittle their accomplishment. Nothing in all history 
surpasses their achievement. The miracle was not the victory for 
independence. The stupendous thing was the successful establish- 
ment of the Republic. There they were, spent and bleeding, in 
the very chaos of newly found freedom; there they were, with ideas 
conflicting, interests varied, jealousies threatening, and selfishness 



26 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



impelling; there they were, without having visualized nationality. 
They had contended for liberty, and when it was obtained they 
found a nation to be the necessary means of its preservation. 

With commanding patriotism and lofty statesmanship, with 
heroic sacrifice and deep-penetrating foresight, they founded what 
we had come to believe the first seemingly dependable popular 
Government on the face of the earth. I can believe they were 
divinely inspired. In the reverent retrospection I can believe that 
destiny impelled. Surely there was the guiding hand of divinity 
itself, conscious of sublime purpose. 

They not only wrought union and concord out of division and 
discord, but they established a representative democracy, and for 
the first time in the history of the world wrote civil liberty into 
the fundamental law. On this civil liberty is builded the temple 
of human liberty, and through this representative Government 
we Americans have wrought to the astonishment of the world. 
More, on the unfailing foundation of civil liberty they established 
orderly government, the most precious possession of all civiliza- 
tion, and made justice its highest purpose. 

Mark you, they were not reforming the world. They had dearly 
bought the freedom of a new people; they reared new standards of 
liberty; they consecrated themselves to equal rights, then sought to 
establish the highest guaranty of them all. They had the vision to 
realize that no dependable government could be founded on ephem- 
eral popular opinion. They knew that thinking, intelligent, delib- 
erate, public opinion, in due time would write any statute that 
justice inspired. They knew that no pure democracy, with 
political power measured by physical might, ever had endured; 
that neither the autocrat with usurped or granted power, or the 
mass in impassioned committal could maintain liberty and justice 
or bestow their limitless blessings. So they fashioned their 
triumphs, their hopes, their aspirations, and their convictions into 
the Constitution of the representative Republic; they made justice 
the crowning figure on the surpassing temple, and stationed beckon- 
ing opportunity at the door — equal opportunity, let me say — and 
bade the world to come and be welcome; and the world came— the 
down-trodden and the oppressed, the adventurous and ambitious — 
and they drank freely of the waters of our political life, and stood 
erect, and achieved, each according to his merits or his industry, his 
talents or his genius. Generous in their rejoicing, the fathers 
neglected to establish the altars of consecration at the threshold. 
Eager to develop our measureless resources, anxious to have 
humanity come and partake freely of new-world liberty, they asked 
no dedication at the portals. They developed an American soul 
in their own sacrifices for liberty, but neglected to demand soul 
consecration before participation on the part of those who came to 
share their triumphs. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 27 



We have come to realize the oversight now. We have come to 
find our boasted popular Government put to the crucial test in 
defending its national rights. We met with no such problem in 
the Civil War. That was a destined conflict between Americans 
of the two schools of political thought, which was the final test in 
maintaining nationality. There was like passion for country on 
either side of that great struggle, but the dross in the misdirected 
passion for disunion was burned away in the crucible of fire and 
blood, and the pure gold turned into shining stars in dear Old 
Glory again. We settled rights to nationality among ourselves. 
We are fighting to-day for the unalterable rights which are inherent 
in nationality, without which no self-respecting nation could hope 
to survive, and for which any nation refusing to fight does not 
deserve to survive. 

There has never been one moment of doubt among Americans 
about the righteousness of our part in this unutterable war. There 
has never been any question among Americans about the necessity 
of our taking a mighty part therein. And there isn't any question 
among real, red-blooded Americans about our fighting it to a 
triumphant ending. It is not in my heart to utter a boast, and I 
am not so unheeding as to underrate the determination and the 
preparedness of the allied central powers. I do not misconstrue the 
loyalty of their peoples, against whom we do and must give battle 
whether we proclaim it so or not, but this mightiest conflict of all 
time is one of resources and brains as well as valor and heroism, 
and America is rich in all, and her strength is doubled by the 
righteousness of our cause. We were slow in our committal, but 
it is unalterable. We do not seek to destroy, but Germany must 
be brought to terms. We do not cry for vengeance, but the 
madman of the world must be restrained or restored to reason. 
We do not mean to intrude or dictate any more than we mean 
to tolerate intrusion or dictation, but now that we are involved, 
we mean to make the world fit to live in, and hold America 
and all lawful avenues of commerce and comity safe for Americans 
on land or sea. 

We have the duty to preserve the inherited covenant of the 
fathers; we have the obligation to hand on to succeeding genera- 
tions the very Republic which we inherited. If this generation will 
not sacrifice and suffer in this crisis of the world, the Republic is 
doomed. If this fortunate people can not prove popular govern- 
ment capable of defense in a war for national rights, popular 
government fails. If the impudent assumption of world domin- 
ation is not thwarted by the entente allies and this people, then 
civilization itself is defeated. Never since the world began has 
any nation been able to dominate the world. A mighty, righteous 
people may influence and help mankind, and I have wished that 
noble task for this Republic, but domination is for God alone, 
and His agency is the universal brotherhood of man. 



28 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



There is one compensation in the very beginning. We are 
finding ourselves. From this day henceforth we are to be an 
American people in fact as well as name. Consecration to America 
is the deliberate and unalterable decree. The dedicating altars 
are erected and are free as liberty itself. Now and hereafter the 
individual, no matter who he is or whence he comes, who proclaims 
himself an American and fattens his existence on American oppor- 
tunity, must be an American in his heart and soul. More, the 
American of to-day, to-morrow, and so long as the Republic 
endures and triumphs, must be schooled to the duties of citizen- 
ship which go with the privileges and advantages thereof, and men 
and women of America are to find what they can do for orderly 
government instead of seeking what it can do for them. 

Solemnly, my countrymen, this is an epoch in human affairs. 
The world is in upheaval. There is more than war and its meas- 
ureless cost. Civilization is in a fluid state. All existent forms of 
government are being tested, and the very fundamentals of human 
achievement are in question. In this hour of reverent memory 
for the beloved Father of our Country, in this wholesome retro- 
spection of the miracle wrought by the founders, in the hurried 
contemplation of the marvelous achievements of our people to 
whom they gave an immortal beginning, let us strive to appreciate 
their wisdom and our good fortune and commit ourselves anew 
to the essential preservation. 

I wonder what the great Washington would utter in warning, 
in his passionate love of the Republic and his deep concern about 
future welfare, if he could know the drift of to-day ? In his undying 
farewell address his repeated anxiety was concerning jealousies 
and heartburnings which spring from distrust and factional mis- 
representations — "they tend to rend alien to each other those 
who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection." 

And he warned us that "respect for authority, compliance with 
its laws, acquiescence in its measures are duties enjoined by the 
fundamental maxims of true liberty." "Liberty itself will find 
in such a government, with powers properly distributed and 
adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little less than a name 
where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises 
of faction * * * and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil 
enjoyment of rights and property." 

Alluding to parties, more comparable to factions in our citizen- 
ship of the present day, he warned against "the spirit having its 
root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists in all 
governments, more or less stifled, controlled or repressed, but in 
those of popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is 
truly their worst enemy." 

In our mighty development we have added to the perils of 
which Washington warned. The danger has not been in party 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 29 



association, but in party appeal or surrender to faction. There 
has been no partisan politics in our war preparation. On the con- 
trary, partisan lines have been effaced, to close up the ranks in 
patriotic devotion. But factions have grown more menacing and 
hold their factional designs more necessary than patriotic con- 
secration. 

It is characteristic of popular government, and its weakness, 
that there is more appeal to popularity than concern for the 
common weal. Too many men in public life are more concerned 
about ballots than the bulwarks of free institutions. Our growth, 
our diversification, our Nation-wide communication, our profit- 
bearing selfishness — these have filled the land with organized 
factions, not geographical, as Washington so much feared, but 
commercial, industrial, agricultural, and professional, each seeking 
to promote the interests of its own, not without justification at 
times, but often a menace, in exacting privilege or favor through 
the utterance of political threats. If popular government is to 
survive it must grant exact justice to all men and fear none. If 
law is to be respected and government remain supreme, legislation 
must be for all the people, not for the few of vast fortune or its 
influences, or the few of commanding activity and their assump- 
tions, or the many who may assert political power in accordance 
with numerical strength. The Republic is of all the people, equal 
in their claims to civil liberty and the grant of opportunity, aye, 
and its righteous rewards. The anxieties of world conflict and 
the inevitable alterations must not blind us to the tasks of 
preservation. 

If the war is to make of us, or of any national votary of modified 
democracy, an impotent people, paralyzed by revolutionary re- 
form, it is not worth the winning. If this world tumult is to leave 
wrecked hopes like that of chaotic Russia to prove that autocracy 
and unintelligent democracy have a common infamy, then civiliza- 
tion must have its purification in a penitence of failure and wrecked 
hopes and unspeakable sacrifices, until God in His mercy and 
wisdom restores sanity to mankind and admonishes men to achieve- 
ment over the proven paths of human progress. No thinking man 
can ignore the changes which war is working. But surely there is 
a righteous mean between the extremes of the expiring adherents 
of autocracy and the intoxicated radicals of deceived and demor- 
alized democracy. Let us prove the Republic the highest agency 
of humanity's just aspirations. 

My countrymen, I am not crying out in a wilderness of 
pessimism, I am uttering a warning that comes of love for the 
Republic. Let us go on, no matter what betides, to the dependable 
establishment of our national rights and the safety of our peoples; 
yes, and the sustained hands of justice among the peoples of the 
earth. We are no longer able to hold aloof, and the world must 



30 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



be made safe to live in. Let us prove our unity — the common 
purpose and the unalterable purpose of all Americans to do that, 
and then let us dedicate ourselves in unity and concord and the 
same unalterable resolution to the preservation of the inherited 
Republic. I could utter a prayer for an American benediction, 
to bestow on us the wisdom, the devotion, the faith, and the 
willingness to sacrifice, which strengthened the fathers in their 
mighty tasks. I wish we might dwell in their simplicity and 
frugality and the freedom from envy which attended. I wish I 
might end the extravagence of government and of individual life 
which adds to unrest and rends our strength. It is our besetting 
sin. We need as much sober thought about what we spend as we 
need agitation about what we earn in every walk of life. No 
people shod in eighteen dollar shoes is equipped for the conquer- 
ing march of civilization. 

We do not proclaim ours the perfect Republic, nor yet the ideal 
popular Government, but we do maintain it is the best and the 
freest that the world has ever known, and under it mankind has 
advanced and achieved as under none other since civilization 
dawned, and in good conscience and consecrated citizenship and 
abiding faith and high hope we mean, with God's good guidance, 
to go on to the fulfillment of the highest American destiny. 




HEAD OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. AFTER SARGENT'S ENGRAVING 

OF GILBERT STUART'S PAINTING, USED ON 
PROGRAMS OF JOINT CELEBRATIONS OF WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY 



32 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



A CHALLENGE! 



/AM an American. 
My father belongs to the 
Sons of the Revolution; 

My mother, to the Colonial 
Dames. 

One of my ancestors -pitched tea 
overboard in Boston Har- 
bor; 

Another stood his ground with 
Warren; 

Another hungered with Wash- 
ington at Valley Forge. 

My forefathers were America in 
the making: 

They spoke in her council halls; 

They died on her battle-fields; 

They commanded her ships; 

They cleared her forests. 

Dawns reddened and paled. 

Staunch hearts of mine beat fast 
at each new star 

In the nation s flag. 

Keen eyes of mine foresaw her 
greater glory: 

The sweep of her seas, 

The plenty of her plains, 

The man-hives in her billion- 
wired cities. 

Every drop of blood in me holds 
a heritage of patriotism. 

I am proud of my past. 

I am an American. 



/'AM an American. 
My father was an atom of 

of dust. 
My mother a straw in the wind, 
To His Serene Majesty. 
One of my ancestors died in the 

mines of Siberia; 
Another was crippled for life by 

twenty blows of the knout; 
Another was killed defending 

his home during the massa- 
cres. 
The history of my ancestors is a 

trail of blood 
To the palace-gate of the Great 

White Czar. 
But then the dream came — 
The dream of America. 
In the light of the Liberty torch 
The atom of dust became a man 
And the straw in the wind be- 
came a woman 
For the first time. 
"See," said my father, pointing 

to the flag that fluttered 

near, 
" That flag of stars and stripes 

is yours; 
It is the emblem of the promised 

land. 
It means, my son, the hope of 

humanity. 
Live for it — die for it!" 
Under the open sky of my new 

country I swore to do so; 
And every drop of blood in me 

will keep that vow. 
I am proud of my future. 
I am an American. 



— Elias Lieberman. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 33 



THE ANSWER 

Delivered on July 4, 1918, as an address of welcome by the President of 
the Sons of the Revolution to newly naturalized citizens at the Ameri- 
canization Day Ceremonies at the Washington Monument. 

We are gathered here today for a Public Celebration of our Nat- 
ional Birthday. Following the annual custom of these Patriotic 
Societies, we have made especial effort to secure the attendance of 
many new citizens of foreign birth. We wish fittingly to observe 
this day as an Americanization Day. To you who have left your 
kindred in foreign lands to become Americans, we extend a hearty 
welcome. Since the coming here of the Pilgrim Fathers, and even 
before, a great experiment has been working on American shores. 
People of different races, creeds, conditions and aspirations have 
flocked here to found their homes. Here there is being fashioned a 
new people, all races of the civilized world are being blended under 
one banner. 

President Wilson has said that America has not grown by multipli- 
cation from its original stock of the days preceding the Revolution. 
American stock, he says, has been constantly renewed, augmented and 
replenished by that of peoples who did not originate or even carry 
with them the same principles that moved those who established this 
Republic. A better understanding of those principles is, therefore, 
highly important to all of us. America should be a composite pur- 
poseful nation. America should attain that ideal under no other 
force than the compelling influence of affection, sympathy, and under- 
standing amongst all Americans. 

We, the Sons of the Revolution and the Sons of the American Revo- 
lution, were founded, among other things, to maintain in our com- 
munities the proper appreciation and respect for the principles for 
which our patriot fathers contended. We stand today for what they 
stood — for freedom and equal opportunity for all. We have a plan 
or purpose for the future. In commemorating with you, our citizens 
of alien birth, this Independence Day, we have a solemn responsibility 
to meet, a sacred duty to fulfill. 

We are descendants of immigrants like you, who came to these 
shores more than a century and a half ago — they came for much the 
same reason as you have more recently come. They did not believe 
in the Divine right of Kings ; they were more concerned with the 
inalienable right of man. That dynastic conception of the state as a 
thing whose power and glory are the chief concern of the subject, 
regardless of the subject's individual happiness, was no part of their 
creed. The Government they founded is one where the people are 
citizens, not subjects ; where the state is created for the people as 
their servant responsible for its acts directly to them. 



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Now there are two constructive fundamental emotions upon which 
law, order and government can be based. One is love. The other 
is fear. Some of you know better than others how the cringing 
Prussian fears those in authority over him and you can believe, with 
me, that the throne of the Hohenzollerns is built upon a rock of 
universal fear, a fear engendered through generations of Germans by 
every conceivable means which organized Prussian oppression can 
invent. Today the German fights merely to have a chance to live. 
If he stops fighting in the hope of escaping death in front, punishment 
by death from behind awaits him. The German army is but an army 
of slaves. Against such an army America is sending a host of free 
men, animated by love for that representative government bequeathed 
to us by our fathers, with personal liberty as its guiding principle. 
The American effort and that of all peoples allied with them is one 
to preserve for posterity the government our fathers' blood purchased 
for us. We would endeavor to make clear on this Americanization 
Day, that America fights for one fundamental purpose — to maintain 
in this world free government. No class of citizens has a greater 
interest in such a defense of democratic principles than you, the alien 
born. Many of you know, better than the native American, the 
evils of the system from which we would escape. Our President has 
said "No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize 
and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers 
from the consent of the governed and that no right anywhere exists 
to hand people about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were 
property." This war is to be prosecuted until peoples having the 
right to govern themselves shall obtain and exercise that right in per- 
fect safety. America never has fought for nor does she now seek to 
be a world power. But America has nothing to live for if Prussia 
becomes the one dominant power of the world. 

And so it has come to pass that this great Nation, the people of this 
land of our birth and your choice with all that they have and all that 
we ever hope to have, has been pledged in this struggle against an 
attempt of brute force to rule the world. We who were born free 
with you who sought here to be free have willed that we all shall die 
free. Let us, therefore, highly resolve, on this Americanization Day, 
that the Old World and the New by the decision of this War shall 
become one world of freedom, justice and kindness, with love as its 
guiding principle. Only under such an inspiration and with the 
requisite force, can we hope to escape a World of Prussian tyranny, 
greed and brutality, founded upon hatred and fear. 



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CONSTITUTION 



Preamble 

Whereas, It has become evident from the decline of proper cele- 
bration of such national holidays as the Fourth of July, Washington's 
Birthday, and the like, that popular interest in the events and men 
of the War of the Revolution is less than in the earlier days of the 
Republic; and 

Whereas, This lack of interest is to be attributed not so much to 
lapse of time as to the neglect on the part of descendants of Revolu- 
tionary heroes to perform their duty of keeping before the public mind 
the memory of the services of their ancestors, and of the times in which 
they lived, and of the principles for which they contended ; 

Therefore, The Society of the "Sons of the Revolution" has 
been instituted, to perpetuate the memory of the men who, in military, 
naval or civil service, by their acts or counsel, achieved American 
Independence; to promote and assist in the proper celebration of the 
anniversaries of Washington's Birthday, the Battles of Lexington and 
Bunker Hill, the Fourth of July, the Capitulations of Saratoga and 
Yorktown, the formal Evacuation of New York by the British Army, 
on the 3d of December, 1783, as a relinquishment of territorial sov- 
ereignty, and other prominent events relating to or connected with the 
War of the Revolution ; to collect and secure for preservation the 
manuscript rolls, records and other documents and memorials relating 
to that War; to inspire among the members and their descendants the 
patriotic spirit of their forefathers; to inculcate in the community in 
general sentiments of nationality and respect for the principles for 
which the patriots of the Revolution contended ; to assist in the com- 
memorative celebration of other great historical events of National 
importance, and to promote social intercourse and the feeling of fellow- 
ship among its members. 

ARTICLE I. 

Name of Society. 

The Society shall be known by the name, style and title of "The 
Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia." 

ARTICLE II. 
Membership. 

Any male person above the age of twenty-one years shall be eligible 
to membership in the "Sons of the Revolution" who is descended from 



36 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

an ancestor, as the propositus, who, either as a military, naval or 
marine officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, or official in the service of 
any one of the thirteen original Colonies or States, or of the National 
Government representing or composed of those Colonies or States, 
assisted in establishing American Independence during the War of the 
Revolution, between the 19th day of April, 1775, when hostilities 
commenced, and the 19th day of April, 1783, when they were ordered 
to cease. 

Provided, That when the claim of eligibility is based on the service 
of an ancestor in the "minute-men" or "militia," it must be satisfac- 
torily shown that such ancestor was actually called into the service of 
the State or United States, and performed garrison or field duty; and 

Provided further, That when the claim of eligibility is based on the 
service of an ancestor as a "sailor" or "marine," it must in like manner 
be shown that such service was other than shore duty and regularly 
performed in the Continental Navy, or the Navy of one of the original 
thirteen States, or on an armed vessel, other than a merchant ship, 
which sailed under letters of marque and reprisal, and that such 
ancestor of the applicant was duly enrolled in the ship's company, 
either as an officer, seaman, or otherwise than as a passenger ; and 

Provided further, That when the claim of eligibility is based on the 
service of an ancestor as an "official," such service must have been per- 
formed in the Civil Service of the United States, or of one of the 
thirteen original States, and must have been sufficiently important in 
character to have rendered the official specially liable to arrest and im- 
prisonment, the same as a combatant, if captured by the enemy, as well 
as liable to conviction of treason against the Government of Great 
Britain. 

Service in the ordinary duties of a civil office, the performance of 
which did not particularly and effectively aid the American Cause, 
shall not constitute eligibility. 

In the construction of this article, the Volunteer Aides-de-Camp of 
General Officers in Continental Service, who were duly announced as 
such and who actually served in the field during a campaign, shall be 
comprehended as having performed qualifying service. 

The civil officials and military forces of the State of Vermont, dur- 
ing the War of the Revolution, shall also be comprehended in the 
same manner as if they had belonged to one of the thirteen original 
States. 

No service of an ancestor shall be deemed as qualifying service for 
membership in the "Sons of the Revolution" where such ancestor, 
after assisting in the cause of American Independence, shall have sub- 
sequently either adhered to the enemy, or failed to maintain an hon- 
orable record throughout the War of the Revolution. 

No person shall be admitted unless he be eligible under one of the 
provisions of this Article nor unless he be of good moral character and 
be judged worthy of becoming a member. 



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ARTICLE III. 

Officers. 

The officers of the Society of "The Sons of the Revolution" shall 
be a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Registrar, 
and a Chaplain, who shall be chosen by ballot at every annual meeting 
from among the members thereof. 

ARTICLE IV. 
Board of Managers. 

The Board of Managers of the Society shall be fifteen, namely: 
The President, the Vice-President, the Secretary, the Treasurer, the 
Registrar, and the Chaplain, ex-officio, and nine others, who shall be 
chosen by ballot at every annual meeting from among the members 
of the Society. 

ARTICLE V. 

Admission of Members. 

Every application for membership shall be made in writing, sub- 
scribed by the applicant and approved by two members over their 
signatures. Applications shall contain, or be accompanied by, proof 
of eligibility, and such applications and proof shall be submitted to the 
Board of Managers, who shall have full power to determine the quali- 
fications of the applicant. 

Payment of the initiation fee and subscription to the declaration 
required by the Constitution of this Society shall be a prerequisite of 
membership. 

ARTICLE VI. 
Declaration. 

Every member shall declare upon honor that he will endeavor to 
promote the purposes of this Institution and observe the "Constitu- 
tion" and "By-Laws" of this Society, and, if he be a citizen of the 
United States, shall declare that he will support the Constitution of 
the United States. Such a declaration shall be in writing, and sub- 
scribed by the member making it. 

ARTICLE VII. 
Institution Considered. 

At every meeting the purposes of the Institution will be fully con- 
sidered and the best measures to promote them adopted. No question, 
however, involving the party politics of the day within the United 
States shall ever be discussed or considered in any meeting of ''''The 
Sons of the Revolution." 



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ARTICLE VIII. 
Commemorations. 

It shall be a standing regulation that the members shall, when 
practicable, hold a commemorative celebration at least once every 
year. 

ARTICLE IX. 

Seal. 

The seal of the Society of "The Sons of the Revolution" shall be 
one and seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, and shall consist of the 
figure of a "Minute-man" in Continental uniform, standing on a 
ladder leading to a belfry, and holding in his left hand a musket and 
an olive branch, and grasping in his right hand a bell-rope. Above 
the cracked "Liberty bell," issuing therefrom a ribbon, bearing the 
motto of the "Sons of the Revolution?' "Exegi monumentum aere 
perennius." Across the top of the ladder, on a ribbon, the figures 
"1776," and at the left of the Minute-man, and also on a ribbon, the 
figures "1883," the year of the Centennial commemoration of the 
permanent evacuation by the British army of American territory; the 
whole encircled by a band three-eighths of an inch wide; thereon at the 
top thirteen stars of five points each, and at the bottom the legend, 
"Sons of the Revolution." 

The Secretary shall be the custodian of the seal, which shall be 
identical in every particular with this description. 

ARTICLE X. 

Insignia. 

The insignia of "The Sons of the Revolution" shall consist of a 
badge pendent from a ribbon by a ring of gold. 

The badge shall be elliptical in form, with escalloped edges, one 
and one-quarter inches in length, and one and one-eighth inches in 
width ; the whole surmounted by a gold eagle, with wings displayed, 
inverted. On the obverse side a medallion of gold in the center, 
elliptical in form, bearing on its face the figure of a soldier in Con- 
tinental uniform, with musket slung. Beneath the figures "1775," 
the medallion surrounded by thirteen raised gold stars of five points 
each upon a border of dark blue enamel. 

On the reverse side, in the center, a medallion, corresponding in 
form to that on the obverse, and also in gold, bearing on its face 
Houdon's portrait of Washington in bas-relief, encircled by the legend, 
"Sons of the Revolution." Beneath the figures "1883," and upon the 
reverse of the eagle, the number of the particular badge engraved ; 
the medallion surrounded by a plain gold border conforming in dimen- 
sions to the obverse, upon which members may have their names en- 
graved in script. 



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The ribbon shall be dark blue, ribbed and watered, edged with 
buff, one and one-half inches wide and one and one-half inches in 
display length. 

The insignia shall be worn by the members conspicuously and only 
on the left breast, on all occasions when they shall assemble as such for 
any stated purpose or celebration. The badge shall never be worn 
as an article of jewelry. 

The Treasurer of the Society shall procure and issue the insignia 
to the members and shall keep a record of all issued by him. 

Such insignia shall be returned to the Treasurer of the Society by 
any member who may formally withdraw or resign or be expelled, but 
otherwise it shall be deemed an heirloom. 

No member shall receive more than one badge, unless to replace 
one, the loss or destruction of which shall first be satisfactorily estab- 
lished. 

On occasions other than the meetings for any stated purpose or 
celebration, members may wear a rosette of the prescribed ribbon 
and pattern in the upper buttonhole of the left lapel of the coat. The 
Treasurer shall procure and issue the rosettes to members. 

ARTICLE XL 

Alterations and Amendments. 

No alteration nor amendment of the Constitution of this Society 
shall be made unless notice thereof shall be duly given in writing, 
signed by the member proposing the same, at a meeting of the Society, 
nor unless the same shall be adopted at a subsequent meeting, held at 
least thirty days after such notice by a vote of three-fourths of the 
members present. 



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BY-LAWS 



SECTION I. 
Initiation Fee, Dues and Contributions. 

The initiation fee for resident and non-resident members shall be 
five dollars ; the annual dues for the calendar year for resident mem- 
bers five dollars; for non-resident members three dollars, which shall 
be payable on or before the first day of January in every year. Neg- 
lect to pay the initiation fee or dues for three months after election 
shall make such election void. 

Members admitted prior to July first shall pay dues for that year; 
those admitted after that date shall not be required to pay dues for 
that year. 

The payment at one time of fifty dollars shall thenceforth exempt 
the member so paying from the payment of annual dues; after ten 
years, twenty dollars ; no dues after twenty years. 

Members of the Sons of the American Revolution who join this 
Society will be exempt from the payment of an initiation fee. 

Any member who may contribute one hundred and fifty dollars to 
the "Permanent Fund" of the Society shall be exempt from the pay- 
ment of annual dues, and this exemption shall extend in perpetuity to 
his lineal successors in membership from the same propositus, one at a 
time, who may be selected for such exemption by the Society. 

The Secretary, Treasurer, and Registrar shall be exempt from pay- 
ment of dues during their term of service, and after a continuous term 
of five years they shall be exempt from further payment of dues. 

SECTION II. 
Permanent Fund. 

There shall be a "Permanent Fund" to be derived from contribu- 
tions and the initiation fees, the income only of which shall be ex- 
pended. 

SECTION III. 
President. 

The President, or in his absence the Vice-President, or in his ab- 
sence a chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all meetings of the 
Society and of the Board of Managers, and shall exercise the usual 
functions of a presiding officer, under general parliamentary rules, 
subject to an appeal to the Society, in proper cases under those rules. 
He shall have power to convene the Board of Managers and appoint 
the place of such meeting when called by him. 



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He shall also perform such other representative duties on behalf of 
the Society, either personally or by correspondence, as it or the Board 
of Managers may find desirable or necessary, or as appertain to his 
office, and he shall enforce a strict observance of the Constitution and 
By-Laws of the Society. 

In case of his decease, resignation, neglect to serve, or inability from 
any cause to act as President, the duties of the office shall devolve on 
the Vice-President, until the vacancy shall be filled, or until the 
inability shall cease. 

SECTION IV. 

Secretary. 

The Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence of the 
Society and keep a record thereof. He shall notify all qualified and 
accepted candidates of their admission, and perform such other duties 
as the Society, or Board of Managers, or his office, may require of him. 
He shall have charge of the seal, certificates of incorporation, by-laws, 
historical and other documents and records of the Society other than 
those of the Treasurer; and access to all records of the Society, in- 
cluding those required to be deposited with the Registrar, all of which 
shall be kept in the office of the Society, and shall affix the seal to all 
properly authenticated certificates of membership, and transmit the 
same without delay to the member for whom it shall be issued or to his 
proper representative. He shall also notify the Registrar of all ad- 
missions to membership, and transmit to him the applications and 
proofs of eligibility of all persons so admitted. He, together with the 
presiding officer, shall, when necessary, certify all acts of the Society, 
and, in proper cases, authenticate them under seal. He shall have 
charge of all printing and publications directed by the Society or by the 
Board of Managers. He shall give due notice of the time and place 
of all meetings of the Society, and of the Board of Managers, and shall 
attend the same. He shall keep fair and accurate records of all the 
proceedings and orders of the Society, and of the Board of Managers, 
and shall give notice to the several officers of all votes, orders, resolves, 
and proceedings of the Society or of the Board of Managers, affecting 
them or appertaining to their respective duties; and, at the annual 
meeting, and oftcner, if required, shall report to the Society the names 
of those candidates who have been admitted to membership, and also 
the names of those members whose resignations or voluntary with- 
drawals have been consented to and accepted, and also the names of 
those members who have been expelled or dropped for non-payment 
of dues, or for failure to substantiate claim of descent. In his absence 
from any meeting, a Secretary pro tempore may be designated there- 
for, unless the Assistant Secretary shall be present to act in such 
capacity. 



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SECTION V. 
Treasurer. 

The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and securities of 
the Society ; and as often as those funds shall amount to one hundred 
dollars they shall be deposited in some bank in the City of Washington, 
which shall be designated by the Board of Managers, to the credit of 
the Society of "The Sons of the Revolution in the District of Colum- 
bia" and such funds shall be drawn thence on the check of the Treas- 
urer. Out of these funds he shall pay such sums only as may be 
ordered by the Society, or by the Board of Managers, and shall per- 
form such other duties as the Society, or Board of Managers, or his 
office, may require of him. He shall keep a true account of his receipts 
and payments, and, at each annual meeting, render the same to the 
Society, with a full statement of the financial condition of the Society, 
when a committee shall be appointed to audit his accounts. 

For the faithful performance of his duty, he shall give such security 
as the Society, or Board of Managers in lieu of its action thereon, 
may from time to time require. 

SECTION VI. 

Registrar. 

The Registrar shall receive from the Secretary, file, and keep of 
record in the office of the Society, all the proofs upon which member- 
ships have been granted, declarations of members on admission of 
adherence to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society, together 
with a list of all diplomas countersigned by him, and all documents, 
rolls, or other evidences of service in the War of the Revolution of 
which the Society may become possessed ; and he, under the direction 
of the Board of Managers, shall make or cause to be made for file in 
said office, copies of such original or certified documents as the owners 
thereof may not be willing to leave permanently in the keeping of the 
Society. 

SECTION VII. 

Chaplain. 

The Chaplain shall be a regular ordained minister of a Christian 
denomination, and it shall be his duty to open and close all meetings 
with customary services, and perform such other duties as ordinarily 
appertain to such office. 

SECTION VIII. 

Historian. 

The Board of Managers shall have power to appoint an Historian, 
who shall keep a detailed record, to be deposited with the Secretary, 



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of all the historical and commemorative celebrations of the Society ; 
and he shall edit and prepare for publication such historical addresses, 
essays, papers, and other documents of an historical character, other 
than a Register of Members, as the Secretary may be required to pub- 
lish; and at every annual meeting, if there shall be a necrological list 
for the year then closing, he shall submit the same, with carefully pre- 
pared biographies of the deceased members. 

SECTION IX. 

Assistant Secretary. 

The Board of Managers shall have power to appoint an Assistant 
Secretary, who shall assist the Secretary in the performance of such 
duties of that office as the latter may, from time to time, devolve upon 
him, and may, in such cases, give required notices, and certify, and 
authenticate, when necessary, any acts, documents, or records of the 
Society. 

In case of the absence of the Secretary from any meeting of the 
Society or of the Board of Managers, or of his decease, resignation, 
neglect to serve, or inability from any cause to act in that capacity, the 
duties of the office shall devolve on the Assistant Secretary until the 
Secretary shall return, or until the vacancy shall be filled, or until the 
inability shall cease. 

SECTION X. 
Board of Managers. 

The Board of Managers shall judge of the qualifications of every 
candidate who shall make proper application for admission to the 
Society, and shall have power to admit him to membership therein, if 
found eligible under the Constitution of this Society. Three negative 
votes shall be a rejection of the applicant. 

They may, through the Secretary, call special meetings of the 
Society at such times as they may see fit ; and they may arrange for 
commemorative celebrations by the Society. 

They shall recommend plans to the Society for promoting its pur- 
poses, and, when practicable, may digest and prepare business for its 
meetings, and shall supervise all publications issued in its name, and 
decide whether copies of record or other documents or papers may be 
furnished on request of any party, in cases not pertaining directly to 
the business of the Society, and the proper conduct of its affairs. 

They shall generally superintend the interests, and shall have the 
control and management of the affairs and funds of the Society. They 
shall also perform such duties as may be prescribed by the Constitution 
and By-Laws, or required by any Standing Rule or Resolve of the 
Society; provided, however, that they shall at no time be required to 
take any action nor contract any debt for which they shall be jointly 



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or severally liable. They shall be competent to consent to and to 
accept the resignation from membership of any enrolled member of the 
Society. 

They may require the attendance of any member of the Society, or 
any official or Committee thereof, at any meeting, for consultation and 
advice. 

The Board of Managers shall meet as often as they may desire, or at 
the call of the President, or upon the written request of any three 
members of the same, addressed to the Secretary. 

Five members of the Board of Managers shall be a quorum for 
the transaction of business. 

At every annual meeting they shall submit to the Society a general 
report of their proceedings during the year then closing, and at such 
other time as may be required by the Society. 

SECTION XL 

Expulsion and Suspension. 

The Board of Managers shall have power, by a two-thirds vote of 
their total number, to expel any enrolled member of this Society, who, 
by a conduct inconsistent with a gentleman and a man of honor, or by 
an opposition to the interests of the community in general or of this 
Society in particular, may render himself unworthy to continue a 
member, or who shall persistently transgress, or, without good excuse, 
wilfully neglect or fail in the performance of any obligation enjoined 
by the Constitution or By-Laws or any standing Rule of this Society. 
Provided, that such member shall have received at least ten days' 
notice of the complaint preferred against him, and of the time and 
place for hearing the same, and have been thereby afforded an oppor- 
tunity to be heard in person. 

Any person expelled shall have a right of appeal to the next annual 
meeting of the Society, but he shall not be restored to membership un- 
less by a vote of three-fourths of the members present on that occasion 
or at a subsequent meeting to which the consideration of the appeal 
may have been specifically postponed. 

Whenever the cause of expulsion shall not have involved turpitude 
or moral unworthiness, any member thus expelled may, upon the 
unanimous recommendation of the Board of Managers, be restored to 
membership by the Society at any meeting. 

The Board of Managers shall also have power to drop from the 
Roll the name of any enrolled member of the Society who shall be at 
least two years in arrears in the payment of dues exclusive of the cur- 
rent year, and who, on notice to pay the same shall fail and neglect to 
do so within ten days thereafter, and upon being thus dropped, his 
membership shall cease, but he may be restored to membership at any 
time by the Board of Managers, upon the payment of all such arrears 
and of the annual dues from date when he was dropped to the date 



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of his restoration. The Board of Managers may also suspend any 
officer from the performance of his duties for cause, which proceeding 
must be reported to the Society and acted upon by it within thirty 
days, either by rescission of the suspension or removal of the suspended 
officer from office, or otherwise the suspension shall cease. 

SECTION XII. 
Vacancies and Terms of Office. 

Whenever an officer of this Society shall die, resign, or neglect to 
serve, or be suspended, or be unable to properly perform the duties of 
his office, by reason of absence, sickness or other cause, and whenever 
an office shall be vacant, which the Society shall not have filled by an 
election, the Board of Managers shall have power to appoint a mem- 
ber to such office pro tempore, who shall act in such capacity until the 
Society shall elect a member to the vacant office, or until the inability 
shall cease. Provided, however, that the office of President or Secre- 
tary shall not thus be filled by the Board of Managers, when there shall 
be a Vice-President or Assistant Secretary to enter upon the duties of 
those offices respectively. 

The Board of Managers may supply vacancies among its members, 
other than an officer, when any member shall be absent from three 
consecutive meetings of the same, then or in case of death or resigna- 
tion of any member, his place may be declared vacant by the Board 
of Managers and filled by the Board by an appointment which shall 
continue in full effect until the Society shall elect a successor. 

Subject to these provisions, all officers of the Society, and the mem- 
bers of the Board of Managers, shall, from the time of their election 
or appointment, continue in their respective offices until the next 
annual meeting. 

SECTION XIII. 
Resignation. 

No resignation or voluntary withdrawal from membership of any 
member enrolled in this Society shall become effective as a release 
from the obligations thereof, unless consented to and accepted by the 
Board of Managers. 

SECTION XIV. 

Disqualification. 

No person who may be enrolled as a member in this Society shall 
be permitted to continue in membership where the proofs of claim of 
qualification by descent shall be found to be incorrect and insufficient 
to substantiate such claim, or not properly authenticated. The So- 
ciety, or the Board of Managers, may, at any time after thirty days' 



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notice to such person to properly substantiate or authenticate his 
claim, require the Secretary to remove his name from the list of mem- 
bers, and such person shall thereupon cease to be a member. Pro- 
vided, he shall have failed or neglected to comply satisfactorily with 
such notice. 

Where the Board of Managers shall direct the removal of a per- 
son's name for a cause comprehended under this section, such person 
shall have a right to appeal to the next annual meeting of the Society ; 
but he shall not be restored to membership unless by a vote of three- 
fourths of the members present on that occasion, or at a subsequent 
meeting to which the consideration of the appeal may have been speci- 
fically postponed. 

SECTION XV. 

Annual and Special Meetings. 

The Society shall hold an annual meeting in the City of Washing- 
ton, on the second Tuesday of December in every year, at which a 
general election of officers and managers, by ballot, shall take place. 

At the next annual meeting preceding the Triennial Convention of 
the General Society, there shall be elected the delegates, and alternates, 
who shall represent the Socity at the meeting of the General Society. 

Stated meetings shall be held in January, April, and November in 
each year, at such time and place as the Board of Managers shall 
determine. At these meetings no business shall be considered or 
transacted, unless a special call be issued, in which event the business 
to be transacted shall be specified, but historical papers may be pre- 
sented and social intercourse promoted. 

Special meetings shall be held by direction of the Board of Mana- 
gers, or upon the written request of ten members of the Society, at such 
time and place as said Board may direct. At such special meeting no 
business shall be transacted except such as shall be specified in the 
notice therefor. 

One week's notice of time and place of annual or special meetings 
shall be given by mailing through the Post Office in said city a written 
or printed notice to every member of the Society. 

At all meetings of the Society twenty-five members shall constitute 
a quorum for the transaction of business. 

The meetings of the Society for business shall be generally con- 
ducted according to Parliamentary Law, and the following Order 
of Business shall, as far as the same may be applicable, be followed : 

Order of Business. 

1. Meeting called to order by Presiding Officer. 

2. Prayer by Chaplain. 

3. Reading of Minutes of prior meetings not previously acted 

upon. 



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4. Election of officers and managers, when necessary. 

5. Communications from or Report of Board of Managers. 

6. Reports of Officers. 

7. Reports of Special Committees. 

8. Unfinished Business. 

9. Written Communications requiring action of the Society. 

10. Specially noticed business. 

11. Notices of motion for subsequent meeting. 

12. Miscellaneous business. 

All resolutions shall be submitted in writing by the mover; all 
Reports of Committees shall be in writing. 

SECTION XVI. 
Service of Notices. 

It shall be the duty of every member to inform the Secretary, by 
written communication, of his place of residence and of any change 
thereof and of his post-office address. 

Service of any notice under this Constitution or By-Laws upon any 
member of the Society, addressed to him at his last recorded place of 
residence or post-office address, and forwarded by mail, shall be deemed 
sufficient service of such notice. 

SECTION XVII. 
Recommendation of Candidates. 

No member shall approve an application for membership in this 
Society unless he shall know the candidate to be worthy, and shall 
have satisfied himself by due examination of proofs that such candidate 
is eligible, and will, if admitted, be a desirable member. 

SECTION XVIII. 

Nominating Committee and Qualification of Voters. 

A Nominating Committee, to be chosen by the Board of Managers 
at a regularly appointed meeting, not less than thirty days before the 
date of every annual meeting, shall nominate candidates for the offices 
provided for by the Constitution, and within ten days after its appoint- 
ment shall report the names of such nominees to the Secretary, who 
shall, not less than five days before the date of the annual meeting, 
communicate the names of the candidates to all members of the Society. 
All members of the Society shall have the right to make other nomi- 
nations for any office in open meeting. 

No member who is in arrears for dues shall vote or be eligible for 
election to any office. 



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The term of service of the Managers shall be three years, one-third 
of the whole number to be elected annually ; Provided, That where a 
vacancy in the Board may have been filled at an election by the Board 
of Managers, such appointment shall continue in effect only until the 
next annual election. 

SECTION XIX. 
Decease of Members. 

Upon the decease of any member residing within the District of 
Columbia, notice thereof, and of the time and place of the funeral, 
may be given by the Secretary by publication, and it shall thereupon 
become the duty of the members, when practicable, to attend the 
obsequies. 

Any member, upon being informed of the decease of a member, 
shall make it his business to see that the Secretary is promptly notified 
of the fact, which fact shall, also, in due time, be communicated to 
the Society. 

SECTION XX. 
Certificate of Membership. 

Every member shall be entitled to receive a certificate of member- 
ship, which shall be authenticated by the President and Secretary, and 
countersigned by the Registrar of the Society, and to which the seal 
of the "Sons of the Revolution" shall be affixed. The family of 
every deceased member shall be furnished with said certificate by the 
Secretary upon application. 

SECTION XXI. 
Committee of Historical Documents and Entertainments. 

The Board of Managers of the Society shall yearly appoint a Com- 
mittee on Historical Documents and Entertainments, to consist of 
five members of the Society and the Historian ex-officio, whose duty 
shall be the preservation and collection of Historical Documents and 
the charge of and arranging for the meetings provided for in Section 
XV of the By-Laws. 

SECTION XXII. 

Marshals and Stewards. 

The Board of Managers of the Society may, from time to time, in 
their discretion, designate a member to act, under direction of the 
President as Marshal for the Society in its commemorative celebra- 
tions, parades, and other meetings, and to perform such duties as 
usually appertain to such a position. 



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The Board of Managers shall also yearly appoint a Committee of 
five Stewards, who shall have charge of the banquets of the Society. 

SECTION XXIII. 
Alterations and Amendments. 

No alterations or amendments of the By-Laws of this Society shall 
be made unless notice thereof shall be duly given in writing, signed by 
the member proposing the same, at an annual or special meeting of the 
Society, nor unless the same shall be adopted at a subsequent meeting, 
held at least thirty days after such notice, by a vote of two-thirds of 
members present. 




GEORGE RICHARDS 



Brigadier-General, U. S. Marine Corps 
President of the Sons of the Revolution in the 
of Columbia 



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ADDRESS 

Delivered on March 15, 1918, at the meeting of the Sons of the Revo- 
lution in the State of Maryland, in Baltimore, Maryland, by 
Brigadier-General George Richards, U. S. M. C., President of 
the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia. 

Mr. President and Members of the Sons of the Revolution in the 
State of Maryland: 

I wish to thank you one and all for the honor you bestow on the 
Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia, in whose behalf 
I am asked to say a word. Our Society is bound to yours by a tender 
tie. Our first President and founder was likewise your first Presi- 
dent. I refer to John Lee Carroll, of Maryland, the great grandson 
of the immortal Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a Signer of the Dec- 
laration of Independence. Also, let me say, when the General Society, 
Sons of the Revolution, was brought forth, John Lee Carroll became 
the first General President of our national organization. Governor 
Carroll's attachment to our Society arose from the fact that our birth 
preceded your own and from the circumstance that his winter resi- 
dence at the time was in the city of Washington. But when the 
Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of Maryland came 
into existence we promptly recognized his feelings, for we appreciated 
that he, as a native son of Maryland, belonged more properly to your 
organization. We regretfully accepted his resignation that he might 
answer your unanimous choice and serve you as President of the 
Society in Maryland, the State of which he was a native and a citizen. 
In his attachment to you, to us, and to the General Society as well, 
John Lee Carroll will be remembered always as a patriotic gentleman 
of high and lofty ideals to whom we shall forever pay a tribute of 
respect and affection. He was of ancient lineage, heroic name, 
assured station; he truly exemplified the purpose for which our So- 
cieties were founded. He knew that we were not brought forth to 
dream of an heroic past, but to act in a crying present. The Sons of 
the Revolution is not a family living alone on the former greatness of 
its ancestors, without plan or strength for the future. We wear a 
button or badge that tells the world what manner of men we sprang 
from, but it should not be forgotten that we stand today for what 
they stood, for freedom, for love of country and of law, and for equal 
opportunity to all. Ours is the most fortunate of all generations of 
Americans; a priceless privilege has been afforded us in these times. 
In this great cataclysm that convulses the world, men are 
groping for some immutable rock of refuge, for some rule of 
life that will save them and all that has been accumulated by their 
sweat since the Dark Ages. Where is that rock to be found ? What 
is that immutable rule? Americans know in their hearts that the 



52 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



rock of refuge ;;nd that rule of salvation is Liberty. It is the one sure 
reliance, the one guide to life, safety and happiness. And when you 
ask Americans where the foundations of the Liberty we enjoy are to 
be found, a great majority will name the American Revolution, where 
our ancestors suffered, for we have been so taught in our youth that 
Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill were its beginnings. While 
such may be true in one sense, let us not be led into false conceptions 
in this respect. Far be it from me to intimate that that Revolution 
was not of priceless importance to us and to mankind. But what 
our fathers fought there for were not so much the rights of them- 
selves and their posterity. More particularly they struggled for the 
rights of other Englishmen, and what inspired them and made them 
master builders were those ancient Anglo-Saxon rights that had been 
won for them on English soil by their own forefathers. In our 
Capital, the city of Washington, there rises a lofty, splendid and 
stately spire, erected to the memory of that pivotal figure of our 
Revolution, George Washington. It rests upon a tremendous and 
solid base, necessary to its stability. Deep down in the ground that 
base is founded. How deep, how solid, no one knows but its build- 
ers, for its massive foundations are never now seen by us. If we go 
down into the cellar of our political history and study there the sills 
and sleepers of freedom, the foundations of the well-rounded dwelling 
wherein is found the liberty we all enjoy today, there is much that we 
shall see. That liberty, that freedom, owes its origin to beginnings 
of fifteen hundred years ago. All through the Dark Ages and the 
Middle Ages and in modern times down to the Abolition of Slavery, 
those rights have been held and added to by the English-speaking 
peoples. They came not as summer breezes; most of them came in 
storm and stress ; for centuries Anglo-Saxon skies have resounded with 
combats for liberties. What our fathers of the Revolution did in 
this relation presents a new view, for they not only secured to us, their 
posterity, the imperishable blessings we enjoy today, but also they 
freed every English colony from the selfish colonial policy of the times 
of George the Third. And their action inspired all other peoples of 
the civilized world to examine carefully into their own rights, and 
this examination caused a realization of wrongs that set the world 
ablaze, first in England itself, then in the French Revolution, and 
later in the European Continental uprisings in 1848. Our American 
Revolution in this respect became one of the major foundations of 
Liberty — America's noble contribution to the list. It brought forth 
first the Declaration of Independence, an immortal document which 
from its inception has been in essence a declaration of war on all kings, 
princes, and potentates the world over. And out of that struggle 
there was further brought forth the best system of free representative 
government thus far the world has ever seen — a system that secures 
justice to all and protects all, high and low alike, from the encroach- 
ment of unlicensed power. But none the less, that Revolution was 



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but a step, one phase of a great movement involving the destiny 
of the human race that continues to this very day. Along that 
great highway over which humanity has progressed in this 
movement, there are many milestones that mark its progress. 
The signing of the Magna Charta at Runnymede in 1215 
was one; the Reformation in Europe in the sixteenth century was 
another ; the coming here of the Pilgrim Fathers yet another. So was 
the French Revolution that followed our own Revolution ; so, in the 
thought of many, was our own Civil War. And, as we look back 
at our development as Americans and at the same time glance at the 
paths over which other nations now our allies, have trod, there we see 
diverging or intersecting roads with the obstacles created by one 
nation against the other, when our interests and our aims did not seem 
identical. Now all those paths have centered into one main highway. 
There we, the free peoples of the world, are standing bound in the 
one great cause of today. That cause concerns not the destiny of 
ourselves as individuals, nor of ourselves as nations or peoples; it is a 
cause that concerns the fate of humanity itself. For, as we have grown 
in strength and in might, as liberalism has spread to other peoples, so 
has the rule of despots, of emperors and kings grown weaker. Today 
government by inheritance and absolutism have centered in a few, in 
one, we might say, in the hands of the German Kaiser himself. Under 
his guidance it is engaged in its death struggle. This war is to deter- 
mine whether that form of government conceived by our fathers 
and dedicated to personal liberty is inherently and fundamentally 
strong enough to survive against its opposite form where the power 
rests not with the people but with their privileged few. So it is, that 
incidentally, and accidently, we are now fighting for England, just as 
England is now fighting for us ; but essentially and fundamentally, we, 
all of us, the English, French, Belgian, Italian, Japanese and Ameri- 
can people, are fighting for ourselves and for civilization. The call 
of today is for men to consecrate their talents, their energy, their lives, 
their fortunes and their sacred honor in the cause of humanity. We, 
the Sons of the Revolution, clearly see that that struggle of our fathers 
was essentially a part of the struggle of today. One of our foremost 
public men, in reminding us that George the Third, with his packed 
and corrupt Parliament and his equally corrupt Cabinet, headed by 
Lord North, did not represent the true spirit of the English people, 
either in those times or since, put the case thus: The American Revo- 
lution was but a revolt against a Teutonic King of England, led by 
an English gentleman, by name George Washington. 

Now, in the English Army there is a hallowed custom which gives 
to every regiment the right to inscribe on their colors the name of 
every battle in which they participate. Do you know that there is 
one regiment of British troops that fought against us from Bunker 
Hill to Yorktown, who refused to inscribe their American battles on 



54 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



their colors? They said, when that as a battle honor, was offered 
them, that they did wish to commemorate battles where they had 
fought Englishmen. And this regiment fought in the Irish Wars, 
and there is no record of such battles on their regimental banners. We 
of the Marine Corps know that regiment well. During the Boxer 
uprising in China, in the summer of 1900, we formed its acquaintance. 
It is known as the Twenty-third Foot, or the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 
and it was on an historic spot cherished by English-speaking peoples 
that our acquaintance was formed. At Taku, China, at the mouth 
of the Peiho River, more than fifty years before, Capt. Josiah Tattnall, 
of the American man-of-war Toeywan, came to the assistance of an 
English frigate, engaged with Chinese pirates, and uttered his mem- 
orable words, "Blood is thicker than water." There, on that very 
spot, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and the American Marines, early in 
that summer of 1900, wrote these words into actual deeds. We en- 
gaged there in battle against one enemy, and for the first time in the 
history of the two nations English blood and American blood was shed 
together. I was not with those forces at that time. But a few 
weeks later I arrived, and on the night of July 12, at Tientsin, I saw 
the Twenty-third Foot for the first time. In the darkness of that 
night we allies were assembled on Victoria Road in the British con- 
cession of Tientsin. We were to endeavor to take the Chinese City 
of Tientsin some 3 miles away, held by a formidable force of Chinese 
troops and Boxers. The Twenty-third Foot came up and were 
halted in our immediate presence. By and by, the word was given 
to advance. "Royal — Welsh !" was their command, instead of "For- 
ward — March!" Away went those khaki-clad British soldiers into 
the darkness. When dawn came, there on the open plain to our left 
was revealed the deployed skirmish line of the Welsh with their 
khaki-covered helmets standing clear on the sky-line. But on the 
backs of the British officers we noted something black in the shape of 
a triangle. "A good idea," we thought, "the men will know their 
officers, but the enemy in front will see no difference." Later in the 
day, after we had advanced under fire with heavy losses and had reach- 
ed a position under the Walled Forts of Tientsin, whence we could 
proceed no further, we were again joined by the Twenty-third Foot. 
We had settled there more or less exhausted, but had "dug in" to 
stick. Some of us turned to Capt. Gwynne, who commanded the 
British forces, and, noting then that that black triangle was of rib- 
bons, we said we thought it a clever idea so to distinguish their officers 
to their men and not to the enemy's snipers. "Not so," said Gwynne. 
"It serves that purpose here, but such is not the object. These rib- 
bons are the 'flash' preserved by us in memory of our service in Ameri- 
ca in your Revolutionary War." And then he told us the story of the 
flash. In those times they wore the periwig, with its pigtails or 
queue. After the surrender of Yorktown they were sent to Nova 
Scotia, where they learned, a year or more after its discontinuance, 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 55 

that the pigtail was no longer in fashion. As the last regiment to 
wear the queue, they took the ribbons with which the periwig was tied 
and sewed them to the backs of the collars of their tunics, and wore 
them thereafter as part of their uniform. In 1823, when some ques- 
tion arose as to their right to wear this as a distinctive feature of their 
uniform, the circumstances became officially known, and an order 
came from the Crown, reading: "The King has been graciously pleased 
to approve the 'flashes,' now worn by the officers of the Twenty- 
third Foot, or Royal Welsh Fusiliers, being henceforth worn and 
established as a peculiarity whereby to mark the dress of that distin- 
guished regiment." And we learned some further interesting infor- 
mation as to the Twenty-third, which served to endear us, as Marines, 
to them. The Hon. Sir William Howe, commander-in-chief of His 
Majesty's armies in America, after Gen. Gage, was designated to that 
high command from service as colonel of the Royal Welsh. He, as 
you know, made a failure of his mission. When relieved by Sir Henry 
Clinton, the famous Admiral Howe, his brother, came to American 
shores in command of the British fleet. Then the French had openly 
come to our help with a squadron stronger than that of Admiral Howe. 
The British ships were insufficiently manned. Howe had no marines, 
and he made his wants known. Out of compliment to their former 
colonel's brother, the Royal Welsh volunteered for this duty. In 
isolated fights, the most notable of which was that with the French 
Caesar, a seventy-two, by the British Isis, of fifty guns, the spirited 
and gallant behavior of the Royal Welsh as marines was noted in the 
official reports. And let me tell you here something of more recent 
history. When our Gen. Pershing first set foot on British soil on 
June 10, 1917, from the gangplank of the steamer Baltic, the military 
bands greeted him as our most distinguished soldier with but one air, 
that to which the national hymns "America" and "God Save the 
King" are set. And there was a guard of honor of British soldiers, 
who presented arms to him at this instant. It was composed of a 
detachment from the Royal Welsh, the Twenty-third Foot, the com- 
rades of the United States Marine Corps of 1900. During its two 
hundred years of existence the Royal Welsh have been the recipient 
of many honors. The Prince of Wales' Feathers, the Red Dragon, 
and the Rising Sun are the badges of the Prince of Wales. They 
were given the Twenty-third for its services in the Marlborough 
campaigns, when George the First, in 1714, conferred on them the 
title "The Prince of Wales' Own Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers." To 
commemorate this distinction, it advances to the command of "Royal — 
Welsh!" instead of to our "Forward — March!" And the White 
Horse of Hanover, the badge of George the Second, was granted to 
the Royal Welsh after the battle of Dettingen (1743), where the 
King personally witnessed the regiment's gallantry. The Sphinx 
was awarded them after the Egyptian campaign in 1801, where the 
regiment carried a high, disputed sand hill at the landing. Its battle 



56 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

honors begin with Namur (1695), on what is now Belgian soil, and 
include such names as Blenheim, Oudenarde, Egypt, Martinique, 
Corunna, Salamanca, Peninsula, Waterloo, Inkerman, Sebastopol, 
Lucknow, Burma, Peking, and Ladysmith. No regiment which, dur- 
ing by far the larger part of its history, has consisted of a single bat- 
talion, has a list of "battle honors" as long as that of the Twenty- 
third Foot. When Gwynne told us that they had fought at Bunker 
Hill, we asked him what happened to them. "Well, you jolly well 
shot us up there," he said. "Some sort of an order was given to your 
people to wait until we got to the top of the hill." "Yes," we said, 
"every American schoolboy knows that order, 'Wait until you see the 
whites of their eyes.' ,; "Well," said Gwynne, "it cost us eight 
hundred men out of twelve hundred, that day, so our regimental his- 
tory says. But that, as history, is over. It is worth noting that these 
days are proud days for us ; for the first time in the history of the two 
nations we, the regular forces of each, are acting together against a 
common enemy." So, there with the American dead and British dead 
about us, we became real friends, to remain so forever, each thereafter 
praising the other in official reports to their respective governments. 
Now the Twenty-third Foot is an old organization; with twenty-five 
other foot regiments, they were called into being in 1689, created by 
William of Orange, one of the most liberal of monarchs on the Eng- 
lish throne, to take part in a struggle against the well-organized at- 
tempts of a mighty Bourbon military autocrat to force his will upon 
other freer but less disciplined nations of Europe. And history is now 
repeating itself; the Royal Welsh is again engaged in a like struggle 
with the greatest military autocrat of all times, in the cause to which 
we Americans are also consecrated, where they are once again shoul- 
der to shoulder with the United States Marines. 

At the beginning of the great war of today the home battalions of 
the Royal Welsh were assembled at Wrexham Depot for service in 
France. On French soil they fought and bled in the stress of those 
times. When the German advance was hurled back from the Marne, 
and modern trench warfare was initiated on the Aisne, after months 
of the fiercest fighting, there occurred an incident — a moment of re- 
laxation, if it may be so called — that many of us read of at the time. 
On Christmas Eve of 1914, on a sector manned respectively on oppo- 
site sides by the Saxons and the British, the firing suddenly ceased, 
but not by orders. The Saxons shouted out first, "Don't shoot." 
The British lads held up their hands in assent. A barrel of beer 
came over the trenches from the Saxon side, and the British in turn 
gave over their surplus rations. These British troops who responded 
to this invitation were none other than the famous Twenty-third, the 
old associates in China of the United States Marines. Let us remem- 
ber that Christmas Eve of 1914 and those Saxons, our enemies now. 
The carol chorus that arose from the German trenches that night came 
from hearts that for the time being expressed peace on earth and good 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 57 



will to mankind. Their ways are not our ways now, though their 
strain is in the Anglo-Saxon stock. Their song silenced for the time 
the crack of the sniper's rifle leveled across no man's land. 

"You English there, why won't you come out," the Saxons called, 
and then the candles burned along parapets that were before guarded 
with ceaseless vigilance. A British chaplain gave to a Saxon colonel 
a copy of the English soldier's prayer, and in return received a cigar 
with a message for the bereaved family of a certain wounded British 
officer who had recently died a prisoner of war in German hands. 
And on the following Christmas Day the Saxons and the Welsh 
buried their dead and even played together a game of football, which 
the Saxons won. That such things could have occurred in the midst 
of war seems unbelievable to us, but that they did occur there can be 
no mistake. It brings us back our faith in the virtues of men. That 
truce was not an official truce, for no Kaiser willed or authorized it. 
It came from the hearts of those who were bearing the brunt of war; 
it expressed that sentiment upon which in the end the world will once 
again be united. And, as we remember what came from the hearts 
of Saxons, chained unknowingly to them to the wheels of the Prussian 
military despotism it is our duty to destroy, let us also hearken back 
to what it was my endeavor to make clear in the beginning. Let us 
again go down and examine the cellar of our political history and 
study there anew the sills and sleepers upon which our instituted form 
of government, dedicated to personal liberty, rests. There we find 
certain fundamental rights inherent with that system, such as the 
right of public assembly, the right of petition, the right of protest and 
the right of free speech. But first of all we find there the right of 
public assembly. We, the English-speaking peoples, had a word 
"moot," a noun, meaning ordinarily a dispute, a debate, a discussion, 
but its original preferred definition was "a meeting," a formal assem- 
bly. It is a word of Anglo-Saxon origin. Those ancient Saxons, 
the forebears of the very men who declared that unofficial truce that 
Christmas night, carried what we may now call the beginnings of 
representative government out of the forests of Germany into Eng- 
land. They had what was known as the folkmoot, the hundredmoot, 
the villagemoot, and the shiremoot, assemblies of the people for the 
discussion of matters that concerned them — the people. Puny and 
imperfect but well defined, these moots — the seed of representative 
government — found lodgment on English soil. There it was nourish- 
ed and has grown into the institutions we cherish and fight for today. 
For from these moots of the ancient Saxons there have grown, under 
our guidance, parliaments, congresses, legislatures and constitutions, 
and governments expressive of the public will, while in the Germany 
from whence the seed came, liberty is dumb. 

How did such come to pass? To understand, let us read these 
words of the German Emperor, uttered very early in his reign : 



58 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



"It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and 
votes, that have welded the German Empire together. My confi- 
dence rests upon the army." 

And again, in 1898, he said: 

"The most important heritage which my noble grandfather and 
father left me is the army, and I received it with pride and joy. To 
it I addressed the first decree when I mounted the throne. * * * 
And leaning upon it, trusting our old guard, I took up my heavy 
charge, knowing well that the army was the main support of my 
country, the main support of the Prussian throne, to which the deci- 
sion of God has called me." 

Von Bernhardi, in his book, "Germany and the Next War," thus 
expressed the German aims: 

"Our next war will be fought for the highest interests of our 
country and of mankind. This will invest it with importance in the 
world's history. 'World power or downfall!' will be our rallying 
cry." 

We are in this war to give expression by our deeds to the purpose of 
Almighty God. For it is written: "All they that take the sword 
shall perish with the sword." So it is that every American who now 
crosses the Atlantic goes on a holy errand, and every gun, every shell, 
every bullet aimed at the heart of the enemy is engaged on a sacred 
work for the relief of humanity. America's cause is as just as Truth, 
as holy as a Benediction from the Almighty. 

The New World is to carry forward this war for humanity from 
now on, and hereafter, so long as brute force attempts to control man- 
kind. The clouds across the Atlantic are dark, indeed, in these 
times. But what of the radiance which shines from Heaven upon the 
free New World ! Here is the hope of humanity. The Old World 
is inextricably engulfed in misery. It cannot do more than stagger 
along in bloody trenches, unable to make that succesful war essential 
for an enduring peace. So, far away across the Atlantic, civilization 
stands stretching out its arms to us for help against the common 
enemy. In answer to that call, in the name of Jesus Christ, we 
are going forward to victory. God, give us loyalty, God, give us 
fortitude, God, give us unflinching and unfailing courage to fight our 
country's cause and to fight gloriously alike for Him. 



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MEMBERSHIP ROLL 



"7b teach our sons and daughters, by precept and example, the 
honor of serving such a country as America — that is a work worthy of 
the finest manhood and womanhood. The well-born are those who are 
born to do that work. The well-bred are those who are bred to be proud 
of that work. The well-educated are those who see deepest into the 
meaning and necessity of that work." — Henry van Dyke. 



ELECTED 

Edward Prescott Abbe April 14, 1915. 

2138 California Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of William Blackler (1740- 
1818); Captain in Colonel John Glover's (Massachusetts) 
Regiment, May 19, 1775, to December, 1775; Captain 
of Massachusetts Militia, 1776-1777. 

William Stone Abert. November 5, 1901. 

Attorney-at-Law . Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Timothy Matlack (1730-1829); 
Colonel in command of the Fifth Rifle Battalion of Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers. 

Anthony Callis Addison. November 29, 1889. 

(Charter Member) 
Bureau of Fisheries. 1910 Sunderland Place, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Andrew Leitch (. . . .-1776); Major, 
Virginia Continental Line; killed in the action of Har- 
lem Heights, 1776. 

James Henry Alburtis November 7, 1919. 

Copy Editor, Government Printing Office. 29 W. Irving Street, Chevy 

Chase, Md. 

Great-grandson of Johonnes Van Metre, Jr. (1735-1818); 
Commanded a Company in Second Battalion of Berkeley 
County Militia, Virginia. 



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ELECTED 

Henry Turman Allen. October 9, 1893 

Major General, U. S. Army. Commanding Army of Occupa- 
tion, Germany. 

Great-grandson of John Allen (1749-1816) of Virginia; 
Captain of Taylor's Regiment, Virginia Convention 
Guards; Major and issuing Commissary of Albemarle, 
Virginia, January 1779-November 1782; emigrated to 
Kentucky 1786, located in Bourbon County 1788. 

Selden Brooke Armat. March 31, 1920. 

Captain, U. S. Army. Office Director of Finance, Muni- 
tions Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Richard Brooke, who served as 
a Lieutenant in Captain William Lynn's and James 
Scott's Company, First Virginia Regiment of Cavalry 
commanded successively by Colonel Isaac Read, Lieu- 
tenant Colonel Green, and Colonel James Hendricks. 

Davisson Armstrong. May 20, 1892. 

President, Citizens National Bank. Frostburg, Md. 

Grandson of William Armstrong, (1763-1848) ; Ensign, 
Captain William Bratten's Company, Colonel William 
Irvine's Regiment, Seventh Pennsylvania Line. 

Matthew Chalmers Armstrong. April 19, 1916. 

Real Estate. Hampton, Va. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Israel Camp (1723-1778) 
Ensign and later Captain in the Revolutionary Army, 
Connecticut troops. 

Great-great-grandson of Rejoice Camp, private in Cap^ 
tain Johnson's Company Connecticut State Troops, Fifth 
Battalion, Wadsworth Brigade 1776. Captain Samuel 
Camp's Company, Colonel Hooker's Regiment Militia. 

Great-great-great-grandson of John Hamilton, Captain 
Third Hampshire County Regiment, Massachusetts 
Militia. 

Clarence Aikin Aspinwall. March 21, 1917. 

President, Security Storage Company, 1839 Wyoming Ave., 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Adonijah Montague (1757- 
1828) who was in the battle at Bennington, Vermont. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 61 



ELECTED 

Edwin Burr Babbitt. March 4, 1895. 

Brigadier General, U. S. Army. Camp Lewis, Washington. 

Great-great-grandson of Jonathan Titcomb, (1728-1817) ; 
Member of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, 
1774; Colonel of a Massachusetts Regiment in the Rhode 
Island expedition, 1778; Member of the State Convention 
of Massachusetts in 1780; and Brigadier-General of 
Militia. 

Philip Randolph Baker. July 27, 1920. 

Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy. 2901 Sixteenth Street, 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of William Baker; served 
in a militia company recruited in East Haddam, Connec- 
ticut, participated in campaign of Long Island and evac- 
uation of New York; died as a result of ill treatment 
while a prisoner of war in the hands of the British. 

John Culver Barcalow. February 17, 1920. 

Investments. 741 Fifteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of John Boylan, Minuteman, 
Somerset, New Jersey State Troops in the Revolutionary 
War. 

Richard Vermillion Barry. March 6, 1914. 

Navy Department. 124 "C" Street, S. E., 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Jacob Bright (1729-1802); 
Captain in Colonel Lewis Nicola's Regiment of Life 
Guards, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776. 

George Livingston Bayard. December 4, 1915. 

Commander [Chaplain s Corps) U. S. Navy. Naval 
Training Station, San Francisco, Calif. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Dr. Noble Wimberly 
Jones; delegate to the Continental Congress and one of 
the foremost to advance the cause of liberty in Georgia; 
one of the five representatives of the Province of Georgia 
in the Continental Congress at Philadelphia chosen Sep- 
tember 13, 1775. 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel John Bayard (1738- 
1806); Major Second Battalion Philadelphia Militia 1775, 
Colonel Philadelphia Militia 1777, Colonel Fourth Bat- 
talion Philadelphia Militia 1779. 



62 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 

Robert Sidney Belknap. January 10, 1916. 

The National City Company. Charles and Fayette Streets, 
Baltimore, Md. 

Great-great-grandson of Moses Belknap; private in 
Captain Timothy Bush's Company of Vermont Militia. 

Edmund Hayes Bell. January 7, 1920. 

The Rochambeau, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Brigadier-General William 
Thompson (1736-1781); Colonel of Thompson's Battalion 
of Riflemen, 1775; Colonel First Regiment Continental 
Line, 1776; Brigadier-General Continental Line, March 1, 
1776, Pennsylvania troops, captured by British at Battle 
of Three Rivers, Quebec, January 8, 1776; exchanged 
October 25, 1780, for Major General Baron de Riedesel; 
received his promotion to Brigadier-General for gallant 
conduct in action. 

Ola Walter Bell. March 29, 1905. 

Major, U. S. Army. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 

Great-grandson of James Bell (1760-1831); Private, 
Captain Benjamin Stoddard's Company of Colonel 
Thomas Hartley's Additional Continental Regiment, 
afterwards the Eleventh Pennsylvania, serving for three 
years, from 1777 to 1780. 

Laurence Vincent Benet. June 25, 1892. 

Artillery Engineer. 1 Avenue Camoens, Paris, France. 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Helm (1746-1778); 
First Lieutenant, Third Battalion, Virginia Forces. 

Marcus Benjamin. February 6, 1900. 

Editor. U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Nathan Benjamin ( 1 73 7-1 785) ; 
Private in Lieutenant Andrew Loomis' Company, 
Colonel Moses Ashley's Militia. 

Great-great-grand-son of Eliphalet Terry (1742-1802); 
Ensign, First Company of Train-Band of Enfield, 1775; 
Commissioner in Enfield for supplies for War and Loan 
Office, 1778. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Ephraim Terry (1701- 
1783); Committee of Correspondence to receive money 
for destitute Boston people; Major, Enfield, Connecticut 
Train-Band. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 63 



ELECTED 

Great-great-grandson of David Mitchell (1748-1810); 
Lieutenant Captain James Campbell's Company, Colonel 
Ashley's (jr,) Regiment; was present at the surrender of 
General Burgoyne. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Matthew Mitchell; Cor- 
poral, Captain John Hinman's Company,Thirteenth Con- 
necticut Militia. 

Great-great-grandson of Daniel Dibble (1754-1842); 
Lieutenant, Captain James Campbell's Company, Colonel 
Ashley, jr.'s, Regiment; was present at the surrender of 
Burgoyne. 

Great-great-grandson of Joel Hough (1757-1843); 
Private, Captain Jesse Moss' Company, Captain Isaac 
Bronson's Company, Colonel Hezekiah Sabin's Regiment, 
1779. 

Adolphus Bogardus Bennett, Jr. May 23, 1912. 

Physician. The Farragut, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Anson Carey (1762-1842); 
Private in Captain Nath Wales' Company, Colonel Levi 
Wells' Regiment of Connecticut Troops. 

Robert Root Bennett. January 6, 1904. 

Attorney-at-Law . 1717 " T" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Robert Bennett (1744-....); 
Lieutenant, First Company, Smithfield Militia, Rhode 
Island, 1779 and 1780. 

Great-grandson of Moses Root (1744-....); Cor- 
poral, Captain Aaron Rowley's Company, Colonel John 
Brown's Regiment, Berkshire County, Massachusetts 
Militia, 1777. 

Great-great-grandson of Stephen Rust (1747-1786); 
Private, Captain Jonathan Stoddard's Company of Artil- 
lery, Colonel Craft's Massachusetts Militia, 1777. 

Great-great-grandson of John Latimer (1703-1792); 
Captain, Lexington Alarm List, New London, Connecti- 
cut, 1776. 

Frank Hager Bigelow. June 25, 1902. 

Professor of Meteorology. Observatorio Magnetico, 

Pilar, Argentina. 

Great-grandson of Convers Bigelow (1755-....); 
Private, Captain Samuel Lawson's Militia Company, 



64 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ELECTED 

1775; also Private, Captain Asahel Wheeler's Militia 
Company, Colonel John Robinson's Regiment, 1776. 
Massachusetts forces. 

Great-great-grandson of Josiah Bigelozv (1730-1810); 
Lieutenant, Captain Israel Whittemore's Militia Com- 
pany, 1775, Massachusetts forces. 

Great-grandson of Nathan Hagar (1744-1802); Pri- 
vate, Captain Samuel Lawson's Militia Company, 1775, 
Massachusetts forces. 

Great-grandson of Elijah Travis (1758-1824); Pri- 
vate,Captain Benjamin Gates' Company,Colonel Manter's 
Regiment, 1776; Private, Lieutenant Samuel Lamb's 
Company, 1776; and Private, Captain Abel Holden's 
Company, Colonel Nixon's Regiment, 1778, Massa- 
chusetts forces. 

William Theodore Bingham. September 26, 1917. 

Journalist. Chevy Chase Club, Chevy Chase, Md. 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Gilbert (1743-....); 
Justice of the Peace for the County of Grafton, New 
Hampshire, 1774; Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourth 
Regiment of Minute Men, commanded by Colonel Sam- 
uel Stevens, at Lyme, New Hampshire, September 1, 
1775; one of the representatives from Lyme to a confer- 
ence held in Lebanon, New Hampshire, to take measures 
for the protection of the surrounding towns, 1777; served 
as private in Captain Jonathan Chandler's Company. 

Edward Maurice Blackwell. January 8, 1914. 

Commander {Medical Corps), U. S. Navy. Bureau of 
Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, Washington, D.C. 

Great-grandson of Joseph Blackwell (1750-1823); 
Signer of the "Westmoreland Protest;" Second Lieu- 
tenant, Tenth Virginia (Continental) Regiment; First 
Lieutenant, Sixth Virginia; Captain in 1781; Major, 
Subsistence Department, Virginia Line. 

Thomas Blagden. May 1, 1893. 

Real Estate. P. 0. Box 1736, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Gold Selleck Silliman (1732-1790); 
Colonel, Fourth Connecticut Militia; Colonel in Regu- 
lar Service, May, 1776; Brigadier-General, December, 
1776; Appointed by the Legislature to command all the 
Cavalry of Connecticut, June, 1776. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 65 



ELECTED 

Montgomery Blair. October 28, 1891. 

Attorney-at-Lazv. Hibbs Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Nathaniel Gist (1719-1794); 
Colonel and Brigadier-General, Virginia State Troops. 

Great-great-grandson of Peter Woodbury (1738-1818); 
Captain Taylor's Company, New Hampshire Troops, 
1775; Signer of Declaration of Revolution, 1776; member 
of Committee of Safety, and Delegate to State Conven- 
tion. 

Great-grandson of Asa Clapp (1762-1848); Volunteer 
under General Sullivan, 1778; Third Officer of Captain 
Dennis' ship; promoted to First Lieutenant. 

Grandson of James Woodbury (1738-1823); Signer 
of Declaration of Revolution, 1776. 

Woodbury Blair. October 28, 1891. 

Attorney-at-Lazv. Hibbs Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Nathaniel Gist (1719-1794); Colonel 
and Brigadier-General, Virginia State Troops. 

Great-great-grandson of Peter Woodbury (1738-1818); 
Captain Taylor's Company, New Hampshire Troops, 
Signer of Declaration of Revolution, 1776; Member of 
Committee of Safety, and Delegate to State Convention. 

Great-grandson of Asa Clapp (1762-1848); Volunteer 
under General Sullivan, 1778; Third Officer of Captain 
Dennis' ship; promoted to First Lieutenant. 

Grandson of James Woodbury (1738-1823); Signer of 
Declaration of Revolution, 1776. 

Eads Twyman Blocker. September 30, 1920. 

Pay Clerk. U. S. Marine Corps, Managua, Nicaragua. 

Great-great-grandson of John Blocker, Sr.; Private in 
South Carolina Militia. 

George Beale Bloomer. December 13, 1915. 

Attorney-at-Lazv. 2008 Hillyer Place, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Commodore Thomas Truxton, 
(1755-1823); Commanded the following vessels sailing let- • 
ters of Marque from State of Pennsylvania: And. Cald- 
well, ship 10 guns; Commerce, ship 14 guns; Independ- 
ence, ship 10 guns; Mars, ship of 4 guns; St. James, ship 
20 guns. 



66 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 

Stanhope English Blunt. October 17, 1892. 

Colonel, U. S. Army {Retired). 83 Ridgewood Terrace, 
Springfield, Mass. 

Great-great-grandson of John Blunt (....-1798); 
Member of the New Hampshire Legislature, 1778-81. 

Joel Thompson Boone. September 30, 1920. 

Lieutenant Commander (Medical Corps), U. S. Navy. 
Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of George Hughes (1742- 
1782); of Pennsylvania, Fifer in Third Company of Colo- 
nel Adam Hubly's Regiment, Eleventh (Pennsylvania) 
Continental Line. 

Merritt Daniel Booth. June 15, 1920. 

U. S. Marine Corps Recruiting Station, Lake Charles, La. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Ezra Pike; Private in 
Captain James Tallmadge's Company of Colonel Ros- 
well Hopkins' Regiment; Corporal in Captain John W. 
Schermerhorn's Company of Colonel William Van Rens- 
selaer's Regiment, New York forces. 

Gardner Lloyd Boothe. January 10, 1917. 

Attorney-at-Law . 711 Princess Street, 
Alexandria, Va. 

Great-great-grandson of William Hartshorne (1742- 
1816); member "Fairfax County Committee of Safety," 
Virginia, of which committee George Washington was 
Chairman and Robert Harrison, clerk. 

Gardner Lloyd Boothe, II. March 31, 1902. 

1406 N. Washington Street, Alexandria, Va. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Richard Henry L.ee of 
Virginia, who was a Signer of the Declaration of 
Independence. 

Great-great-grandson of William Hartshorne (1742- 
1816); member "Fairfax County Committee of Safety," 
Virginia, of which committee George Washington was 
Chairman and Robert Harrison, clerk. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 67 



ELECTED 

William J Boothe. March 29, 1916. 

Broker. 406 N. Washington Street, Alexandria, Va. 

Great-great-grandson of William Hartshorne ( 1 742- 
1816); member "Fairfax County Committee of Safety" of 
Virginia, of which committee George Washington was 
Chairman and Robert Harrison, clerk. 

Frederic Stickney Borchers. April 23, 1919. 

(By transfer from Pennsylvania Society.) 

323 Maryland Avenue N. E., Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of James Stickney (1742-1823); 
commissioned an ensign in Captain John Belknap's Com- 
pany, Second New York Ulster County Militia, Revolu- 
tionary War; Colonel John McClaughry's Regiment; 
served as private in Captain Benjamin Vail's Company 
in the same regiment. 

Lucius Allyn Bostwick, March 21, 1917. 

Captain, U. S. Navy. Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of John Bostwick (1758-1820); 
Private in Captain Benedict's Company, Bradley's Bat- 
talion, Wadsworth's Brigade, enlisting August 24, 1776, 
Connecticut forces. 

Granville Carter Bradford. March 2, 1915. 

Investments. 335 Southern Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Samuel Kellett Bradford (1740- 
1793), of Virginia; Captain of Artillery; Major and Aide- 
de-Camp to General George Weeden; a member of the 
Society of the Cincinnati. 

Nelson Duvall Brecht. November 7, 1917. 

Physician. 609 Twenty-second Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Samuel Duvall (1740-1804); 
Private in Captain Hatch Dent's Company, Second Mary- 
land Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas 
Woolford. 

Southwick Cary Briggs. May 4, 1904. 

Real Estate. Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Elias Buel (1737-1824); 
Major, Second Battalion Connecticut Troops, Colonel 



68 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 

John Ely, 1777; commanded Fort Trumbull, New Lon- 
don, 1777; Deputy to General Court from Coventry, 
Connecticut, 1777-8. 

Great-great-grandson of Solomon Southwick (2d), of 
Connecticut (1731-1897); Deputy Commissioner General 
of Issues, 1778; and Deputy Commissioner General of Is- 
sues to receive supplies for troops, 1781. 

Mervyn Chandos Buckey. March 11, 1899. 

Colonel Field Artillery, U. S. Army. Army and Navy Club, 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Samuel Walter Wash- 
ington (1734-1781) of Virginia; Colonel and Aide-de-Camp 
on the staff of his brother, General George Washington. 

Barry Bulkley. January 12, 1892. 

Secretary, Metropolitan Theatre Company. 932 "F" Street, 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Peacock (1731-1828); 
Sergeant, Captain Van Keuren's Company, Colonel New- 
kirk's Regiment, New York Troops. He was with Gen- 
eral Washington in his retreat through New Jersey, 
crossing the Delaware. 

Robert Wells Bulkley. October 11, 1899. 

Manager, Feature Film Company. 1744 "F" Street, 

Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Peacock (1731-1828); 
Sergeant, Captain Van Keuren's Company, Colonel 
Newkirk's Regiment, New York Troops. He was with 
General Washington in his retreat through New Jersey, 
crossing the Delaware. 

Francis Mason Burrows. January 10, 1916. 

Special Agent, Department of Commerce. 2148 Pennsylvania 
Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of General John Burrozves (1760- 
1824), of New Jersey; who was Captain of the additional 
Continental Regiments commanded by Colonel David 
Foreman; also a Captain in and Major of an additional 
regiment commanded by Colonel Oliver Spencer. Was 
commissioned Captain in Foreman's Regiment, January 
29, 1777, commissioned Major, July 22, 1779. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 69 



ELECTED 

Hiram Ralph Burton. May 23, 1917. 

Attorney-at-Law. Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of John Rodney (1725-1792); 
sheriff of Sussex County in 1751 and 1756; trustee of the 
General Loan Office in 1769; appointed November 6, 
1773 on commission to build a bridge at Lewes, Delaware; 
November 10, 1776, member of Council of Safety; Feb- 
ruary 21, 1777, military treasurer for Sussex County, 
Delaware. 

Henry Kirk Bush-Brown. March 31, 1913. 

(By transfer from New York Society) 

Sculptor. 1729 "G" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of George Bush (1756-1843); Drummer 
in Captain Abraham Tyler's Company, Eighth Connec- 
ticut Continental Regiment, Colonel Zedediah Hunting- 
ton, commanding, December 17, 1775. 

Henry Buchanan Byrd. January 10, 1917. 

Banker. 719 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Captain William Bird, of 
Pennsylvania; who was First Lieutenant June 10, 1777, 
and Captain August, 1777, Fourth Regiment of Light 
Dragoons Continental Troops commanded by Colonel 
Stephen Moylan. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Captain William Bird, 
of Pennsylvania; who was First Lieutenant Second Penn- 
sylvania Battalion January 5, 1776; Captain Fourth 
Continental Dragoons to January, 1777, Resigned July 8, 
1778. 

Henry Buchanan Byrd, Jr. February 7, 1917. 

Banker. 918 Eighteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Captain William Bird, 
of Pennsylvania; who was First Lieutenant June 10, 1777 
and Captain August, 1777, Fourth Regiment of Light 
Dragoons Continental Troops commanded by Colonel 
Stephen Moylan. 

Great-great-great-great grandson of Captain William 
Bird, of Pennsylvania, who was First Lieutenant Second 
Pennsylvania Battalion, January 5, 1776; Captain Fourth 
Continental Dragoons to January, 1777; Resigned July 
8, 1778. 



70 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 

Edward Kernan Campbell. May 23, 1917. 

Chief Justice, U. S. Court of Claims. 2017 "F" Street, 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Captain John Campbell (1741-1825) 
of Virginia, who enlisted in 1776 and was commissioned 
Captain of the Militia by Gov. Patrick Henry in 1777. 

John Doyle Carmody. November 5, 1902. 

Major of Infantry, U. S. Army. War Department, 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of John Doyle; Captain of Independent 
Pennsylvania Company, July, 1776; Company became 
part of Eleventh Pennsylvania, December 16, 1777; one 
of the original members of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

John Fulton Carmody. March 31, 1920. 

1211 Vermont Avenue N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-great-grandson of Benjamin Chand- 
ler who was a sergeant in Captain Turner's Artillery of 
New Hampshire Troops. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Caleb Chase who was a 
Corporal in Colonel Reynolds Regiment of New Hamp- 
shire Militia. 

Great-great-great-great-grandson of Samuel Gunnison 
who was Captain of Tenth Company, Sixteenth Regi- 
ment of New Hampshire Militia. 

Great-great-grandson of John Doyle who was Captain 
of an independent Company organized at Philadelphia, 
and distinguished himself at the Battle of Green Springs. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Robert Fulton who was a 
Sergeant in the Continental Army during the War of the 
Revolution. 

Royal Phelps Carroll. November 26, 1915. 

41 East 49th Street, N. Y. City, N. Y. 

Great-great-grandson of Charles Carroll, of Maryland; 
who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence, also a Member of the First Continental Congress. 

George Frederick Chapline. October 18, 1915. 

Lieutenant, U. S. Navy. U. S. S. Columbia, care of Post- 
master, New York City. 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Moses Chapline 
(1754-1812); was First Lieutenant, Maryland Battalion 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 71 



ELECTED 

of the Flying Camp; First Lieutenant Sixth Maryland, 
Captain, Sixth Maryland; Battles, Long Island, Brooklyn 
Heights, White Plains, Storming of Fort Washington, 
Trenton, and Princeton; wounded at the Battle of 
Cowpens. 

Vance Duncan Chapline. June 15, 1920. 

Lieutenant-Commander, U. S. Navy. U. S. S. Reid., 

Care Postmaster, New York City. 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Moses Chapline 
(1754-1812); First Lieutenant, Maryland Battalion of the 
Flying Camp; First Lieutenant, Sixth Maryland; Cap- 
tain, Sixth Maryland; Battles of Long Island, Brooklyn 
Heights, White Plains, Storming of Fort Washington, 
Trenton, and Princeton; wounded at the Battle of Cow- 
pens. 

William Ridgely Chapline, Jr. March 2, 1915. 

United States Forestry Service, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Moses Chapline 
(1754-1812); was First Lieutenant, Maryland Battalion 
of the Flying Camp; First Lieutenant, Sixth Maryland; 
Captain, Sixth Maryland; Battles, Long Island, Brooklyn 
Heights, White Plains, Storming of Fort Washington, 
Trenton, and Princeton; wounded at the Battle of 
Cowpens. 

Plimpton Bird Chase. April 1, 1913. 

Beverly, Sparta, Ohio. 

Great-grandson of Beverly Chase (1759-. . . .); Private 
in Captain Brown's Company, Third Regiment, Dutchess 
County, New York Militia, Colonel Wynkoop. 

John Whitsitt Childress. March 31, 1920. 

U. S. Government Printing Office. Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Joseph Magruder; First Captain, 
29th Battalion, Maryland; participated in campaigns of 
1777 and 1779. 

Robert Smith Chilton, Jr. May 22, 1891. 

U. S. Consul. Coburg, Canada. 

Great-great-grandson of George Brent (1703-1779); 
Member of Committee of Safety and Observation of Staf- 



72 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ELECTED 
ford County, Virginia, July, 1774, to devise means to 
resist the taxation of Great Britian and to encourage the 
people of Boston. 

Lewis Painter Clephane. December 17, 1897. 

Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy. 1225 "K" Street, 

Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Augustus Collins (1743-1813); 
Private, Lexington Alarm, 1775; Ensign, Second Com- 
pany, General Wooster's First Connecticut Regiment; 
Second Lieutenant, Captain Hand's Guilford Company, 
Captain Talcott's Regiment, 1776; Captain, Third Com- 
pany, Colonel Thaddeus Cook's Regiment, Second Bat- 
talion of State Regiments, Generals Spencer and Wooster, 
1776; appointed Captain by the General Assembly of a 
Battalion raised for the defense of the State of Connec- 
ticut, 1777; Major, Twenty-eighth Regiment, 1782. 

Great-grandson of Thomas Painter (1760-1848); Pri- 
vate, Captain Robert Brown's Company; also served 
under Captain James Prentice, afterwards served on 
many vessels, and was captured by H. M. Ship of War, 
"Albicore." 

Walter Collins Clephane. November 25, 1903. 

Attorney-at-Law. Connecticut Avenue and Lenox Street, 

Chevy Chase, Md. 

Great-grandson of Augustus Collins (1743-1813); 
Private, Lexington Alarm, 1775; Ensign, Second Com- 
pany, General Wooster's First Connecticut Regiment; 
Second Lieutenant, Captain Hand's Guilford Company, 
Colonel Talcott's Regiment, 1776; Captain, Third Com- 
pany, Colonel Thaddeus Cook's Regiment, Second Bat- 
talion of State Regiments, Generals Spencer and Wooster, 
1776; appointed Captain by General Assembly of a Bat- 
talion raised for the defense of the State of Connecticut, 
1777; Major, Twenty-eighth Regiment, 1782. 

Great-grandson of Thomas Painter (1760-1848); Pri- 
vate, Captain Robert Brown's Company; also served 
under Captain James Prentice; afterwards served on 
many vessels and was captured by H. M. Ship of War 
"Albicore." 

Murray Addison Cobb. November 15, 1915. 

Captain, U. S. Army. 1112 Connecticut Avenue, 
Washington, D. C. 
Great-great-grandson of Andrew Leitch (. . . .-1776); 
Major Virginia Continental Line. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 73 



ELECTED 

Samuel Tredway Conkling. March 31, 1920. 

(By Transfer from the Indiana Society.) 

Secretary, Western Life Annuity Company. 302 Northbrook 

Courts, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Conkling; First 
Regiment of Minute Men of Suffolk County Militia; 
Sergeant of Captain Paul Reeve's Company of Colonel 
Josiah Smith's Regiment, New York troops. 

John Holmes Converse. July 27, 1920. 

Accountant. Office Auditor for War Department, 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Asa Converse, Captain William 
Clark's Company of General Fellowes' Regiment, Lieu- 
tenant John Cole's Company, General Fellowes' Regi- 
ment, Connecticut forces. 

Eugene Cochran Copenhaver. October 24, 1916. 

Stationer. 3810 Keokuk Street, Chevy Chase, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Captain Simon Copen- 
haver (1738-....); Captain Second Battalion, York 
County, Pennsylvania Militia, Commissioned October 
1, 1777, and April 5, 1778. 

Harry Dunnell Copenhaver. October 24, 1916. 

Engraver. 1521 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Captain Simon Copen- 
haver (1738-....); Captain, Third Company, Second 
Battalion, York County Pennsylvania Militia, Com- 
missioned October 1, 1777, and April 5, 1778. 

John Cochran Copenhaver. November 5, 1902. 

Engraver. 1939 Calvert Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Simon Copenhaver 
(1738-. . . .); Captain, Third Company, Second Battalion, 
York County, Pennsylvania Militia. 

Theodore Sullivan Cox. December 11, 1917. 

Emery Place, Brightzvood, W ashington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of James Cox (1753-1810); Pri- 
vate and Lieutenant, First Regiment, Monmouth County, 



74 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ELECTED 

New Jersey Militia; Lieutenant, Colonel Asher Holmes' 
Regiment, New Jersey State Troops; participated in the 
battles of Germantown and Monmouth. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Jacobus {James) Van 
Zandt (1727- . . . .); Private, Captain Henry Lott's Com- 
pany, Fourth Associators, Bucks County, Pennsylvania 
Militia, 1775. 

Great-great-grandson of William Denison (1756- 
1820); Private and Corporal, Third and Fourth Con- 
necticut; Enlisted 1777; Served to close of war; his 
company was detached from the Connecticut Line and 
sent to Virginia to serve under Lafayette, and formed 
part of the battalion that stormed the redoubts at York- 
town, October 14, 1780. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Johannes Kroesen (1729- 
1812); Second Lieutenant, Captain Henry Lott's Com- 
pany, Fourth Associators, Bucks County, Pennsylvania 
Militia, 1775. 

Great-great-great-grandson of William Denison; 
Private in the Continental Army, and also served in the 
New Jersey Militia. 

Great-great-great-grandson of William Potts (1721- 
1783); Private in Continental Army; appointed a mem- 
ber of the Committee of Observation for the City and 
County of Burlington, February 14, 1775, of which Wil- 
liam Tallman was Chairman. 

William Van Zandt Cox. September 3, 1895. 

Banker. Second National Bank, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of James Cox (1753-1810); Private 
and Lieutenant, First Regiment, Monmouth County, 
New Jersey Militia; Lieutenant, Colonel Asher Holmes' 
Regiment, New Jersey State Troops; participated in the 
battles of Germantown and Monmouth. 

Great-great-grandson of Jacobus (James) Van Zandt 
(1727-....); Private, Captain Henry Lott's Company, 
Fourth Associators, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Militia, 
1775. 

Great-grandson of William Denison (1756-1820); 
Private and Corporal, Third and Fourth Connecticut; 
Enlisted 1777; Served to close of war; his company was 
detached from the Connecticut Line and sent to Virginia 
to serve under Lafayette, and formed part of the bat- 
talion that stormed the redoubts at Yorktown, October 
14, 1780. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 75 



ELECTED 

Great-great-grandson of Johannes Kroesen (1729- 
1812); Second Lieutenant, Captain Henry Lott's Com- 
pany, Fourth Associators, Bucks County, Pennsylvania 
Militia, 1775. 

Great-great-grandson of William Denison; Private in 
the Continental Army, and also served in the New Jersey 
Militia. 

Great-great-grandson of William Potts (1721-1783); 
Private in Continental Army; appointed a member of 
the Committee of Observation for the City and County 
of Burlington, February 14, 1775, of which William Tall- 
man was Chairman. 

John Adolph Bernard Dahlgren. April, 5 1897. 

Attorney-at-Law. Fendall Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of James Reed (1724- 
1807); Colonel of the Third New Hampshire Regiment; 
was promoted to Brigadier-General in the U. S. Army, 
August, 1778. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Henry Wisner, of New 
York (1720-1790); Delegate to the First Continental 
Congress, 1774. 

Richard Graham Davenport. February 19, 1891. 

Commodore, U. S. Navy {Retired). 1441 Hopkins Street, 

Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Richard Graham (1738-1796); Mem- 
ber of Committee of Safety and Observation of Prince 
William County, Virginia, and Commissioner of Revenue 
for the support of the Revolution. 

Great-great-grandson of George Brent (1703-1779); 
Member, Committee of Safety and Observation, Stafford 
County, Virginia. 

Great-great-grandson of Charles Jones (1705-1797); 
Commissioner of Revenue for Support of the War, and 
first Judge of Montgomery County, Maryland, 1777. 

Great-great-grandson of Samuel Love (Senior) (1718- 
1785); Member, Committee of Safety and Observation 
of Charles County, Maryland; also member, Maryland 
Convention, 1774. 



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ELECTED 

John Fuller Davis. May 26, 1914. 

Major {Cavalry), U. S. Army. Fort Riley, Kansas. 

Great-great-great-grandson of George Morgan (1742- 
1810); First Lieutenant, First Volunteer Company, 
Philadelphia; Commissioned Colonel, January 8, 1777; 
Acted as Deputy Commissary General of Washington's 
Army at Valley Forge. 

Edwin Willard Deming. February 7, 1917. 

Artist. Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Lieutenant Solomon Deming, 
of Connecticut (1736-1820); who served from April 19, 
1775 to May 7, 1775, as Ensign in Lexington Alarms, Cap- 
tain Moses Saul's Company of Minute Men, Colonel 
John Fellows; Served again in same Company as Ensign 
from May 8, 1775 for eight months; Served again in same 
company as Ensign, and commissioned First Lieutenant 
in Captain Samuel Wolcott's 10th Company, May 6, 
1776. 

William Arthur Dexter. October 30, 1918. 

Bank Teller. 5710 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Elias Thomas (1746-1820), 
of Massachusetts; who served in the capacity of Private 
and Scout. 

Charles Francis Diggs July 22, 1909. 

Attorney-at-Law. 320 Congress Street, Ottawa, Illinois 

Great-grandson of Joseph Diggs; Surgeon, Maryland 
Marching Militia. 

Edward Wilton Donn, Jr. June 3, 1895. 

Architect. 1708 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 
Great-grandson of Samuel Gardner (1761-1823); Pri- 
vate in the Essex County, New Jersey, Militia. 

Orville Breckenridge Drown. May 23, 1917. 

Insurance. 6i"j Southern Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Elijah Otis (1749-1838), of 
New Hampshire; who served as Private under General 
Stark at the battle of Bennington. 



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ELECTED 

Irving Hall Dunlap. April 5, 1901. 

U. S. Fish Commission. 1728 "Q" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Diarca Allen (1761-1850); Private, 
First Connecticut Regiment, commanded by Colonel 
Josiah Starr; May 22, 1777, to May 22, 1780. 

Seely Dunn September 30, 1920. 

Assistant Director, Bureau of Statistics. Interstate Com- 
merce Commission, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Israel Hutchinson, of Massa- 
chusetts; Served as Colonel, Twenty-seventh Continental 
Infantry; Lieutenant-Colonel of Mansfield's Massachu- 
setts Regiment, May 27 to December 31, 1776. 

Harry Lyman Dunwoody. December 3, 1915. 

(Transferred from New York Society) 

Investments. Copley Courts, Seventeenth and Church Streets, 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of James Dunwoody (1745-1815), 
of Pennsylvania; Private in the Seventh Class of the 
Eighth Company of Cumberland County Militia; Private 
in Captain Walter McKinney's Eighth Company, Fourth 
Battalion, Cumberland County Militia, 1781. 

Clinton Goodloe Edgar. April 10, 1900. 

Merchant. 520-532 Lafayette Boulevard, Detroit, Mich. 

Great-great-grandson of Samuel Gill; Ensign, Fourth 
Virginia, February, 1776; First Lieutenant, November, 
1776; Captain, January, 1777. 

Great-great grandson of Archibald Woods (1749-1836); 
Captain in the Virginia Militia; served under Colonel 
Russell, Colonel Lewis, Colonel Donnelly, and Colonel 
Henderson. 

Milton Courtwright Elliott September 30, 1920. 

Attorney-at-Law . 1818 "0" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Demsey Burgess, of North 
Carolina; Commissioned Major of Minute Men (Pasquo- 
tank County) September 9, 1775; promoted Lieutenant 
Colonel April 22, 1776; Delegate to Provincial Congress 
of North Carolina August 21, 1775. 



78 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 

Lay Hampton Everhart. March 2, 1915. 

Lieutenant-Commander, U. S. Navy {Retired). 58 Clair- 
mont Avenue, Decatur, Ga. 

Great-great-grandson of Gray Bynum (1737-1814); 
Member of Surry County, North Carolina House of 
Commons, 1779; participated in General Assembly that 
year. 

Great-great-grandson of Joseph Banner; Private, North 
Carolina Troops. 

Samuel Pannill Ficklen. January 29, 1919. 

Insurance. 1823 Biltmore Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel William Letcher, of 
Virginia (1741-1781); who served under General 
Nathaniel Greene in the Carolinas. 

Arthur Foraker. November 15, 1915. 

Real Estate. The Connecticut, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of David Paine (1737-1807); 
Private in Captain Eliphalet Thorp's Company, Lieu- 
tenant Colonel John Brook's Regiment. 

Edward Norval Fortson. April 14, 1915. 

Investments. 44 Cedar Street, New York, N. Y. 

Great-grandson of Robert Toombs (. . . .-1815); Major, 
Virginia Militia, 1779-1782. 

Charles Leonard Frailey. January 10, 1916. 

Attorney -at-Lazo 1506 Twenty-first Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Seth Freeman (1750-1825) of 
Massachusetts; Master, privateer Success; promoted on 
September 30, 1782; Private Captain Benjamin Perry's 
Company, Major Winslow's Regiment, also Captain 
Fish's Company, Colonel Freeman's Regiment. 

David Washington Gall. March 21, 1917. 

Attorney-at-Lazv. 205 E. Capitol Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of George Gall, Jr. (1766-1852), of 
Pennsylvania; enlisted January 10, 1781 at the age of 14; 
Served against the British through Dismal Swamp under 
Colonel John Boyer; discharged September 2, 1781, at the 
age of 15; Enlisted again and marched to Yorktown and 
was present at the surrender of the British. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 79 

ELECTED 

Hampson Gary. May 7, 1905. 

U. S. Minister to Switzerland. U. S. Legation, Berne. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Joseph Dickson (1745- 
1825); Member of House of Commons, North Carolina, 
1775; Member of Committee of Safety, Rowan County, 
North Carolina, 1775; Captain in Colonel McDowell's 
Regiment, South Carolina Troops, 1780; participated in 
Battle of King's Mountain, as Major of "Lincoln County 
Men;" promoted to Colonel, 1781; retired at close of war, 
as Brigadier-General. 

Theodore Nicholas Gill, Jr. December 13, 1915. 

1406 "G" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Conrad T. Wederstrandt 1736- 
1801), of Maryland; was commissioned Assistant Deputy 
Commissary of Purchases for the Army for the Country 
included in Queen Anne and Talbot Counties and below. 

Frederick Worden Montrose Graham. April 19, 1916. 

Real Estate. 1502 "H" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Dr. Andreiv Graham (1728- 
1785), of Connecticut; who was one of the Committee of 
Safety in the perilous period of 1775; Served as sur- 
geon in the American Army, and on being taken prisoner 
by the British was confined for several months in the old 
Middle Dutch Church in Nassau Street, New York City. 

John Brady Grayson. October 2, 1900. 

Merchant. Warrenton, Va. 

Great-great-grandson of Spence Grayson (1732-1798); 
Chaplain of the Virginia Regiment, known as "Grayson's 
Additional Continental Regiment," from May, 1777, to 
April, 1779. 

Clarence Henning Green. March 21, 1917. 

Treasury Department. 3022 "0" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Richard Thurman (1743- 
1830), of Virginia; Private in Captain Douthat's Com- 
pany, Colonel Holcombe's Regiment. 



80 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ELECTED 

Frank Key Green. January 2, 1900. 

Marshal, U. S. Supreme Court. 2907 "Q" Street, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Uriah Forrest (1756-1805); 
Lieutenant and Lieutenant Colonel of the Maryland Line; 
afterwards appointed Major General of the Maryland 
Militia. 

Thomas Edward Green. July 27, 1920. 

Director, Speakers' Bureau, American Red Cross. National 
Headquarters, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Joseph McCreary, of Mary- 
land (1742-. .. .); Served in Third Company, Sixth Bat- 
talion, Lancaster County Militia, commanded by Captain 
John Duncan. 

Great-grandson of Andrew Green, of Virginia (1761- 
1837); Private in Captain Chapman's Company of 
Colonel Joseph Crockett's Regiment; severely wounded 
in skirmish at Bear Grass Creek. 

Edward Alonzo Greene. February 17, 1920. 

Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps. Third Regiment, 

Second Provisional Brigade, Santo Domingo, D. R. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Philip Greene; Chief 
Justice Court of Common Pleas, County of Kent, Rhode 
Island, through Revolutionary period, also associate jus- 
tice of that Court (1759-1776); gave liberally of money 
and supplies to the maintenance of the Continental Army. 

Frank Edward Guernsey. January 7, 1912. 

Attorney-at-Law. Dover, Maine. 

Great-great-grandson of Robert Thompson; Private in 
Captain William Boyes' Company, Colonel Daniel Rey- 
nolds' Regiment, New Hampshire Militia, November, 
1781. 

Frank Warren Hackett. November 1, 1890. 

Attorney-at-Law. Kellogg Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Jeremiah Hackett (1750-1797); 
Ensign, Colonel Henry Gerrish's Regiment, New Hamp- 
shire Militia. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 81 

ELECTED 

William Anderson Hall. February 15, 1912. 

(By transfer from Ohio Society) 
The Thornton, Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 

Grandson of Richard Clough Anderson (1750-1826); 
Brigadier-General, Virginia Militia; Aide-de-Camp to 
General Lafayette; an original member of the Society of 
the Cincinnati. 

William Carvel Hall September 30, 1920. 

First Lieutenant U. S. Marine Corps. Marine Detachment, 

U. S. S. New York, care Postmaster, San Francisco, 

Calif. 

Great-great-grandson of Josias Carvel Hall (1746-1814); 
Colonel, Second Battalion, Maryland Flying Camp. 
Commanded Fourth Battalion of Regulars March 27, 
1777; Participated in battles of Trenton and German- 
town. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Charles Willson Peale 
(1741-1827); Captain Pennsylvania Militia; Served as 
Lieutenant at the battle of Trenton; Commanded a 
company at battles of Princeton and Germantown; 
Served at Whitemarsh and Valley Forge 1778. 

Great-great-great-grandson of William Smith (1728- 
1814); Member, Committee of Observation, Baltimore 
County, Maryland, November 1774 — September 1775; 
Member, Continental Congress, February-December 
1777; Member, Navy Board, Middle District May 9- 
July 17, 1778. 

Great-great- great-grand son of Robert Gamble (1754- 
1810); First Lieutenant, Twelfth Virginia Company, 
September 14, 1776; Captain, March 7, 1778; Regiment 
designated Eighth Virginia Company September 14, 
1778. Served to close of war. 

William Felton Ham. December 13, 1915 

President, Washington Railway 13 Electric Company. 
Wardman Park Inn, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Elisha Stetson (1759-1848), of 
Massachusetts; who served as private from May 1, 1776 
to April 3, 1778; and as Corporal to March 30, 1781. 



82 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ELECTED 

William Curry Harllee. December 13, 1915. 

Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps. Headquarters 

Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of David Stuart (1725-1783), of 
South Carolina; who fought throughout the Revolu- 
tionary War under General Marion. 

Robert Newton Harper. March 29, 1916. 

President, District National Bank. Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of William Harper (1761-1829); who 
served as private in the Third Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Line. 

Reuben Augustus Heaton. March 21, 1917. 

1332 Nineteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Samuel McNeill (1753-1817), of 
Pennsylvania; who served as private in Captain Longs- 
streth's Company, and was wounded in the battle of 
Princeton, Jan. 3, 1777. He took part in the Military 
Expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the 
Six Nations of Indians in 1779 and was commissioned 
Brigade Quartermaster in General Edward Hand's 
Brigade, General Sullivan's Division. He served seven 
years in the Revolutionary Army. 

George Hellen. April 5, 1901. 

1724 Twenty-first Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of John Hellen (1743-. . . .); First 
Lieutenant, First Maryland Battalion of the Flying 
Camp. 

James Malcolm Henry. June 11, 1890. 

2021 "I" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of John Henry (1743-. . . .), of Penn- 
sylvania; Captain, First Continental Artillery. 

Great-great-grandson of Zachariah Forrest (1736- 
....); Member of Committee of Safety and Observation 
for St. Mary County, Maryland, 1774; and First Judge 
in St. Mary County, Maryland. 

Great-great-grandson of David Crauford (1738-1801); 
Signer of the Declaration of Freedom of Maryland, 
July 25, 1775; Commissioner of Revenue for the Sup- 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 83 

ELECTED 

port of the War; Member of the Committee of Safety 
and Observation; Delegate to Provincial Convention, 
1774-75; and first Judge of Prince George County, Mary- 
land. 

Samuel Herrick June 15, 1920. 

Attorney-at-Lazv. 3512 Macomb Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Captain Rufus Herrick 
(1734-1811); Fourth New York Continental Line Regi- 
ment June 28, 1775; served at Ticonderoga eighteen 
months; thence to the Southward to the end of the War; 
retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. 

Great-great-grandson of Samuel Herrick (1757-1824); 
private, Fourth New York Continental Regiment 
July, 1775. 

Great-great-grandson of William Jackman (....); 
First Sergeant, New Hampshire Continental Forces. 
Participated in several Revolutionary battles including 
Fort Ticonderoga. 

John James Higgins, Jr. March 20, 1909. 

Insurance. Woodzvard Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Zadock Magruder (1729- 
1811); Colonel, Upper Battalion, Frederick, Maryland. 

Charles Sanderson Hill. April 19, 1916. 

Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps. Commanding Marine 

Detachment, Camaguey, Cuba. 

Great-great-grandson of Walter Russell (1737-1782); 
who served as a Minute Man in Captain John Parker's 
Company, 1775; later as Captain in the Massachusetts 
Militia. 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Richardson, private 
in Captain Jonathan Stickney's Company, Colonel 
Bridge's Regiment of Massachusetts Minutemen which 
marched on the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775. He 
enlisted and served as Sergeant at Lexington and Bunker 
Hill and participated in the siege of Boston. 

Gouverneur Hoes. January 29, 1919. 

First Lieutenant, U. S. Army. The Dupont, 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Major James Monroe (1758- 
1831); who served as Lieutenant in the Third Virginia 



84 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ELECTED 

Regiment under Colonel Hugh Mercer. During 1777-78 
he served as a volunteer aide to Lord Sterling with the 
rank of Major and took part in the battles of Brandy- 
wine, Germantown, and Monmouth. He was recom- 
mended by General Washington for a commission in the 
State troops of Virginia. 

Richmond Cranston Holcomb. June 15, 1920. 

Lieutenant-Commander, U. S. Navy (Medical Corps). 
U. S. S. Relief, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Great-great-grandson of Robert Hemsted; Sergeant in 
Captain Stanton's Company of Militia in the Eighth 
Connecticut Regiment. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Joshua Hempstead 
(1724-1806); participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill; 
enlisted when over fifty years old; same company and 
regiment as his son, Benjamin Hempstead. 

Archibald Hopkins. December 3, 1889. 

(Charter Member) 

1826 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Mark Hopkins; Colonel, First 
Massachusetts Infantry. 

Great-grandson of David Rossiter; Lieutenant-Colonel, 
Second Massachusetts Infantry. 

Nevil Monroe Hopkins. December 18, 1892. 

2128 Bancroft Place, Washington, D. C. 
Great-great-great-grandson of Ralph Cross (1738- 
1810); of Newburyport, Massachusetts; Captain of In- 
fantry; afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel of Johnson's 
Regiment; commanded a regiment at the surrender of 
Burgoyne; with others, he built the frigates Hancock, 
Boston, and Proctor. 

Alfred Byrne Horner. June 26, 1893. 

Warrenton, Va. 
Great-grandson of William Edmonds (1734-1816); 
Colonel, First Battalion Virginia Militia, 1778. 

Beale Richardson Howard. January 16, 1918. 

1410 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Vincent Richardson, of Mary- 
land; who assisted in establishing American Independence 
while acting in the capacity of Ensign in Captain John 
Taylor's Company. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 85 



ELECTED 

Great-great-grandson of John Beale Bordley Howard 
(1743-1799), of Maryland; First Lieutenant Continental 
Army, Eighth Battalion Harford County Militia. 

Frederic Louis Huidekoper. January 29, 1909. 

Attorney-at-Lazv, and Military Historian. 1614 Eighteenth 
Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Judge Edward Shippen 
(1703-1781); President of the Committee of "Inspection 
and Observation" at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Andrew Colhoon (....- 
1794); Second Lieutenant in Wilson's Sixth Battalion, 
Pennsylvania Troops. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Evan Evans (1732- 
1794); Colonel of the Elk Battalion, formerly Fourth 
Battalion, May, 1777; Colonel, Second Battalion, April, 
1778; commanded the Militia of Chester County, Penn- 
sylvania, at the Battle of Brandywine; member of the 
Supreme Executive Council, 1785; also of the Chester 
County Associators, 1774; member of the Committee of 
Observation of Chester County, 1774; Delegate to Pro- 
vincial Congress, Philadelphia, 1776; and member of the 
Pennsylvania Legislature in 1780. 

Thomas Levi Hume. June 21, 1906. 

Broker. 1412 "G" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of William Hansborough (....- 

1816); Private, Second Virginia Regiment, 1775, under 

Colonel William Fontaine; engaged in battle of Great 

Bridge. 

Benjamin Grubb Humphreys September 30, 1920. 

Member of Congress. Greenville, Miss. 

Great-grandson of Ralph Humphreys (1735-1789); who 
served during the War of the Revolution with the Vir- 
ginia Militia. 

Gaillard Hunt. January 1, 1890. 

Department of State. 1711 De Sales Street, Washington, 

D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Robert R. Livingston (1746- 
1813), of New York; Member of the Second Continental 
Congress, and one of the Committee of Five which drew 
up the Declaration of Independence; administered oath of 
office to George Washington, first President under the 
Constitution, April 30, 1789. 



86 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



' ELECTED 

Clair Aubrey Huston. March 2, 1904. 

Artist. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Michael Leib (1759-1822); Sur- 
geon in Colonel Benjamin G. Eyre's Second Battalion of 
Pennsylvania Militia. 

John Harold Hyde. December 13, 1915. 

Timber Dealer and Inventor. 2312 " M" Street, Tacoma, 

Wash. 

Great-grandson of Felix Pozvel (1762-1851); served 
as private in the Revolutionary War in Captain Gideon 
Brownson's Company, Colonel Seth Warner's Continen- 
tal Regiment; transferred to Captain Buell's Company 
in the First Connecticut Regiment; from which he was 
transferred to Captain Clift's Light Infantry Company 
of Colonel Butler's Regiment. 

Thomas Hyde, IV. January 7, 1920. 

Farmer. Sandy Spring, Md. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Thomas Hyde, of Severn, 
Maryland; commissioner of supervisors for the emission of 
bills of credit for the support of the Government and for 
carrying on the war; Was commissioned Captain in the 
Flying Camp of 1776, and later Lieutenant Colonel of 
the Second Battalion of which Josias Carvel Hall was 
Colonel. Participated in the battles of Trenton and 
Princeton. 

Richard Washburn Hynson. February 17, 1920. 

Investments. 741 Fifteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Colonel William Rich- 
ardson, Fourth Maryland Flying Camp, 1775; Fifth 
Maryland Regiment, 1886; Resigned in 1779. 

Ralph Jenkins. May 1, 1898. 

Physician. 1732 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Moses Hatfield; Cap- 
tain, Company of Minute Men, 1775; Major, Drake's 
Regiment, New York Militia, 1776; Colonel, New York 
Militia, 1780-81. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 87 



ELECTED 

Thomas Lloyd Jenkins. March 29, 1916. 

Patents. 2232 "H" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of John Chapman, who enlisted 
as private in Captain William Price's Company (Chester 
County, Pennsylvania) Militia of Col. John Haunam's 
Regiment. 

Henry Abert Johnson. November 7, 1917. 

American Consul. Dundee, Scotland. 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Timothy Matlack 
(1730-1829) ; who took an active part in pre-Revolutionary 
movements as one of the " Fighting Quakers ;" commanded 
a Battalion of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Revolution- 
ary Army; delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental 
Congress; master of the rolls; secretary to the Continental 
Congress for some time in Philadelphia; commanded the 
Fifth Rifle Battalion with Lieutenant-Colonel Clymer and 
Major Lawrence Herbert, etc. 

Theodore Carlton Johnson. November 20, 1913. 

Treasury Department. 
2033 "H" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Conrad Theodore Weder- 
strandt (1736-1801); Assistant Deputy of Purchases, 
Queen Anne, Talbot County and below, Maryland, 
September 10, 1779. 

Eldridge Elmore Jordan. December 13, 1915. 

Banker, Real Estate Trust Company. Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Captain John Martin (1748- 
1813), of South Carolina; who served in the Continental 
Army to the end of the war. 

Great-grandson of John Archer Elmore (1762-1834), of 
South Carolina; who served as a lad in the Revolution 
with his brother Thomas. 

Joseph Isadore Keefer. October 2, 1900. 

Claim Agent. 607 Louisiana Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of George Wilson (1745-1779); Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, Virginia State Line. 



88 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ELECTED 

Arthur Keith. March 4, 1895. 

Geologist. U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Thomas Crane (1726- 
1804), of Massachusetts; Delegate to Second Provincial 
Congress at Cambridge, February, 1775; Representative 
in General Convention during the five years of the 
Revolution. 

Great-great-grandson of Jacob Richardson (1742- 
1817), of Massachusetts; Lieutenant in Massachusetts 
Regiment and assisted in the capture of Burgoyne. 

Jacob Miller Kenyon. May 27, 1915. 

Attorney-at-Law . Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Corbin Griffin; Hospital Sur- 
geon, February 29, 1776, to May 31, 1777; also Volunteer 
Hospital Surgeon, Yorktown, Virginia, 1781. 

Great-great-grandson of David Seely, private April 8, 
1776, Captain Jeremiah Parmalee's Company, Colonel 
Samuel Elmore's Regiment (Continental) Connecticut; 
Corporal January 10, 1777, Captain Eli Catlin's Company, 
Colonel Philip Burr Bradley's Fifth Regiment "Connec- 
ticut Line." 

Charles Everett Kern. November 25, 1903. 

Manager of Bureau of Corporate and Financial Infor- 
mation. 1328 Harvard Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Yost Harbaugh (1741-1831); 
Captain, York County, Pennsylvania Associators, 1776; 
Captain, Seventh Company, Second Battalion, York 
County Associators, commanded by Colonel William 
Rankin, April 5, 1778. 

Royall Ogden Kloeber. March 31, 1920. 

Assistant Director of Finance, U. S. Army, War 
Department, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Benjamin Rollins (Raw- 
lins), Jr., who served with Fourth Regiment of Militia 
in New Hampshire. 

Great-great-great-great-grandson of Benjamin Rol- 
lins (Rawlins), served as a corporal in Captain Everts 
Company, Colonel Bedel's Regiment New Hampshire 
State Troops. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 89 



ELECTED 

William Harrison Lamb. March 31, 1920. 

Journalist. National Press Club, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of James Lamb, Private in Cap- 
tain David Stephenson's Company, Eighth Virginia 
Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel Abraham 
Bowman. On account of his activities against the 
mother country was disowned by his relatives in Scotland. 

John Jay Lane. June 27, 1894. 

2099 East 96th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 

Great-grandson of John Wilson (1716-1812), of Penn- 
sylvania; Private, Captain Robinson's Company, Wayne's 
Battalion, during the Revolution. 

Charles Ford Langworthy. May 7, 1902. 

Assistant Chief of Division, Department of Agriculture. 
1604 Seventeenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Joel Wheeler; Private, Fifth 
Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Rufus 
Putnam. 

Charles William La Porte October 2, 1900. 

Senator, 18th Senatorial District. Peoria, Illinois 

Great-great-grandson of Richard Dorsey; Third Lieu- 
tenant of Richardson's Maryland Battalion of the Flying 
Camp; Lieutenant Fourth Continental Dragoon; Captain 
Independent Company of Maryland; captured by 
British at Valley Forge; wounded at Camden. 

Harry Randolph Lay. January 10, 1917. 

Lieutenant-Colonel, Assistant- Adjutant and Inspector, U. S. 

Marine Corps. Fourth Headquarters. Marine Corps, 

Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Asa Lay, of Connecticut; who 
was on the staff of Baron Steuben with the rank of Colonel. 

Cazenove Gardner Lee, Jr. February 17, 1920. 

Mechanical Engineer. 3401 Newark Street, Washington, 

D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Richard Henry Lee, signer of 
the Declaration of Independence; First Senator from 
Virginia. 



90 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 

Ralph William Lee. December 2, 1890. 

Real Estate and Insurance. Colorado Building, 

Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Jedediah Hull (1732-1796), 
of Connecticut; Lieutenant in Captain Dimon's Com- 
pany of Colonel Beebe's Regiment, 1775. 

Great-grandson of Seth Lee (1755-1790); of Captain 
Joseph Hait's Fourth Company of Colonel Charles 
Webb's seventh Regiment, Connecticut Continental 
Line, 1775. 

Great-great-grandson of William Lee (1710-1791); 
Fifer in Captain William Judd's Company, Colonel Sam- 
uel Wyllv's Third Regiment, Connecticut Continental 
Line, 1777-81. 

Alexander Brown Legare. February 1, 1890. 

1636 "I" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Legare (1733-1801); 
Member of Council of Safety and of Assembly of South 
Carolina. 

Balie Peyton Legare. February 10, 1892. 

58 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Calif. 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Legare (1733-1801); 
Member of Council of Safety and of Assembly of South 
Carolina. 

Great-great-grandson of John Green (. . . .-1793); 
Captain, First Virginia Battalion; Major and Colonel, 
Sixth Virginia Regiment. 

Hugh Swinton Legare. February 1, 1890. 

1714 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Legare (1733-1801); 
Member of Council of Safety and of Assembly of South 
Carolina. 

Sidney Kent Legare. May 27, 1915. 

Department of Agriculture. 1714 Massachusetts 
Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Thomas Legare (1733- 
1801); Member of Council of Safety and of Assembly 
of South Carolina. 



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ELECTED 

Jefferson Monroe Levy. March 12, 1894. 

Attorney-at-Law. 27 Pine Street, New York, N. Y. 

Great-grandson of Benjamin Levy (....-1802) of Mary- 
land; Signer of the Non-Importation Agreement and of 
Continental Bills of Credit. 

Great-grandson of Jonas Phillips (1754-1803); Private, 
Captain John Linton's Company, Colonel William Brad- 
ford's Battalion, Philadelphia Militia; afterwards mus- 
tered into United States service, 1778. 

Alfred Eli Lewis. November 25, 1903. 

War Department. The Dresden, Apt. 48, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Eli Lewis (1750-1807) of Pennsyl- 
vania; Major, First Battalion, York County Associators, 

1777-78. 

Frank Lie-bey. December 13, 1915. 

Sixth Street and New York Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Grandson of John Libbey (1760-1812) of New Hamp- 
shire; served as Private in Captain James Arnold's Com- 
pany in Colonel Joshua Wingate's Regiment. 

Charles Porterfield Light. January 29, 1919. 

Investments. 741 Fifteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great grandson of Captain William Hey- 
ser (1735-1802) of Maryland; who served in the Con- 
tinental Army for two years from July 1776. 

Great-great-grandson of George Tabb of Virginia; served 
with Captain Hugh Stephenson's Company; joining 
General Washington's Army before Boston. 

John Clifton Little. February 17, 1920. 

1221 State Street, Schenectady, New York. 

Great-great-great-grandson of William Browne; Lieu- 
tenant in Mills' Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, and lost 
life in the battle of Brandywine. 

Chester Walker Lockwood. January 10, 1917. 

2212 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Isaac Lockwood (1761-1838); 
Private in Captain Billings' Company, Colonel Herman 
Swift, Second Regiment of Connecticut Troops. 



92 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 

Homer Winthrop Lockwood. May 27, 1915. 

2212 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Isaac Lockwood (1761-1838); 
Private in Captain Billings" Company, Colonel Herman 
Swift, Second Regiment of Connecticut Troops. 

John Alexander Lockwood. February 17, 1920. 

Colonel, U. S. Army {Retired). Army and Navy Club, 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Richard Lockwood (1735-1787) 
of Delaware; member of Convention assembled at New- 
castle, Delaware, August, 27, 1776. Each member took 
an oath to maintain and support the independence of 
Delaware as declared by the Continental Congress. 

Great-great-grandson of William Thompson (1736- 
1781), of Pennsylvania, General, Continental Army, raised 
and commanded Thompson's Battalion of Riflemen, First 
Colonel of First Regiment of Continental Line, Brigadier- 
General Continental Line; taken prisoner by British at 
Battle of Three Rivers, Quebec, 1776, exchanged for 
Major-General Baron de Riedesel. Thompson's Rifle- 
men were first troops from any of the Colonies South of 
New England to join American Army before Boston. 

Great-great-grandson of George Read (1733-1798) of 
Delaware; was one of two statesmen and the only 
southern one that signed "The Original Petition to the 
King by the First Continental Congress," "The Declara- 
tion of Independence," and "The Constitution of the 
United States." 

Great-grandson of Allan McLane (. . . .-1829) of 
Delaware; who was an officer in the Army during the 
Revolution and an original member of the Society of the 
Cincinnati. 

Thomas Wildman Lockwood, Jr. May 22, 1912. 

2212 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Isaac Lockwood (1761-1738); Private 
in Captain Billings' Company, Colonel Herman Swift, 
Second Regiment of Connecticut Troops. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 93 

ELECTED 

Oscar Fitzalan Long. October 28, 1891. 

Brigadier-General, U. S. Army {Retired). 65 Hazel Lane, 
San Francisco, Calif. 

Great-great-grandson of Cornelius Mabie (1740-1789); 
First Lieutenant, Third Company, Military Foot, 
Captain John Van Petten, Colonel Abraham Wemple. 

Edward Farragut Looker. May 29, 1891. 

1312 Thirtieth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Othniel Looker (1757-1845); Private, 
Colonel Martin's Regiment, "Jersey Line," 1776; in 
Colonel Ogden's Regiment, 1776-77; in Colonel Martin's 
Regiment, New Jersey Militia, 1777-82. 

Reginald Berry Looker. February 5, 1907. 

Bank Clerk. 1312 Thirtieth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Othniel Looker (1757-1845); Private, 
Colonel Martin's Regiment, "Jersey Line," 1776; in 
Colonel Ogden's Regiment, 1776-77; in Colonel Martin's 
Regiment, New Jersey Militia, 1777-82. 

John True Loomis. June 25, 1902. 

Bookseller. 1726 Corcoran Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of John Blunt (....-1804); 
Captain, Colonel McCobb's Regiment, Massachusetts 
Militia, June to September, 1779; Captain, Militia of 
Lincoln County, Maine, Major William Lithgow, 1779; 
Captain, Massachusetts Militia, under Brigadier-General 
Wadsworth, 1780. 

William Scott Lyon. February 17, 1920. 

(By transfer from New York Society.) 

2921 Ordway Street, Cleveland Park, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Daniel Hand; Private Captain 
Jacob Crane's Company, First Regiment, New Jersey 
Militia; Private Captain Christopher Marsh's Troop of 
Light Horse; participated in battles of Monmouth, 
Connecticut Farms, and Springfield. 

Charles Laurie McCawley. July 1,1890. 

Brigadier-General, The Quartermaster, U. S. Marine Corps. 
1610 New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of William McCalla (1731-1815); 
Captain, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Associators, 



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ELECTED 

August 21, 1775; Captain, Seventh Company, Second 
Battalion, Bucks County Militia, May 6, 1777; Chief, 
Forage Department, Bucks County, 1779; Commissioner 
of Purchases, 1780-81 

Great-great-great-grandson of William Holt; Com- 
missary for the American Army during the Revolution. 

Ralph Walker McDowell. December 22, 1911. 

Lieutenant-Commander {Medical Corps), U. S. Navy. Na- 
val Hospital, San Diego, Calif. 

Great-great-grandson of John McDozvell (1745-1811); 
Surgeon of the Second Pennsylvania Continental In- 
fantry; Senior Surgeon of the Sixth Pennsylvania Regi- 
ment, Lieutenant-Colonel Josiah Harmer, commanding. 

Samuel McGowan. November 15, 1915. 

The Paymaster General of the Navy and Rear Admiral {Pay 
Corps) U. S. Navy, Chief of Bureau of Supplies and Ac- 
counts, Navy Department. University Club, Washington, 
D. C. 

Great-grandson of Thomas Farron (1755-1843) of 
North Carolina; who enlisted as private in Captain James 
Saunders Company, Major William Moore's Battalion, 
January 1, 1776; Commissioned First Lieutenant, No- 
vember 1778. 

William Buckner McGroarty. April 15, 1912. 

(By transfer from the Ohio Society) 

Agent. Southern Railway. Box 155, Falls Church, Va. 

Great-great-grandson of Nicholas Taliaferro (1757- 
....); Ensign, Tenth Virginia, August, 1777; Second 
Lieutenant, November 15, 1777; Sixth Virginia; First 
Lieutenant, February 18, 1781, to close of war. 

Great-great-grandson of Philip Buckner (1747-1820); 
served as Captain and Commissary, December, 1777, 
Virginia (Caroline County) Troops. 

Duer McLanahan. August 19, 1920. 

Student. 2031 "Q" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great -great -great -great -grandson of James Potter, 
Colonel, Pennsylvania Militia, 1775; Brigadier-General 
Pennsylvania Militia, April 15, 1777; Major General, May 
23, 1782; member Pennsylvania Convention, 1776; Vice- 
President of Pennsylvania, 1781. 



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ELECTED 

Francis Worthington Mansfield. April 2, 1894. 

Colonel, U. S. Army {Retired). 1267 Garfield Avenue, 

Pasadena, Calif. 

Great-grandson of David Phipps of Connecticut; 
Captain of the U. S. Frigate Essex; served throughout 
the Revolution. 

Charles Clagett Marbury. September 30, 1920. 

Physician. 1015 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Luke Marbury (1742- . . . .) 
of Maryland; Colonel in Maryland Militia, taken 
prisoner at Battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777. 

Great-great-grandson of Otho Holland Williams 
....-1794) of Maryland; First Lieutenant of Cresap's 
Company Maryland Riflemen, June 21, 1775; Major of 
Stephenson's Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment, June 
27, 1776; wounded at Fort Washington, November 16, 
1776; Colonel Sixth Maryland, December 10, 1776; trans- 
ferred to First Maryland, January 1, 1781; Brigadier-Gen- 
eral Continental Army, May 9, 1782; retired January 
16, 1783. 

Charles Carroll Martin. November 30, 1917. 

Editor. 32 Burling Slip, New York, N. Y. 
Great-great-great-grandson of Captain George Kilgore 
(. . . .-1819); who was sworn in as First Lieutenant of the 
Loudoun County, Virginia, Militia on August 9, 1779 and 
later was commissioned Captain and as such served as 
long as his services were required. 

Frank Bostick Martin. April 19, 1916. 

Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of General John Martin, 3d (1749-. . . . ) 
of South Carolina; who served in the capacity of General 
under General Washington in the War of the Revolution. 

George Ralph Marvell. March 21, 1817. 

Captain, U. S. Navy. Commandant, Armor and Projectile 

Plant, Charleston, W. Fa. 

Great-great-grandson of Stephen Marvell (1737-1806) 
of Massachusetts; Private, Steven Bullock's Company, 
Thomas Carpenter's Regiment. 



96 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 

Richard Nelson Mason. May 27, 1915. 

Business Manager, Gunston Hall School. 1906 Florida 
Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Robert Randolph (1759-1825); 
Ensign, 1775; Lieutenant, June 14, 1777; Captain in Bay- 
lor's Dragoons, Virginia Troops; Aide-de-Camp to Gen- 
eral Anthony Wayne; Member of the Virginia House of 
Delegates. 

Arthur Mathewson. December 21, 1906. 

(By transfer from New York Society) 

Physician. 1410 "H" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Samuel McClellan (1730-1807); 
Captain of Company of Cavalry at Lexington, April 19, 
1775 ; Major in Eleventh Regiment of Connecticut Militia 
October 15 1775; Lieutenant-Colonel, December 27, 1776; 
Colonel, January 23, 1779, and Brigadier-General of the 
Fifth Brigade, Connecticut Militia, June 10, 1784. He 
was on duty with his Regiment in New Jersey in 1776; in 
the expedition to Rhode Island in 1777, and commanded 
the troops at New London and Groton from 1871 to the 
end of the war. 

Frederick William Matteson May 27, 1915. 

Major {Quartermaster Corps), U. S. Army. 3838 Woodley 
Road, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Samuel Matteson, Jr. (1762- 
1848); Private in Captain Thomas Sawyer's Company, 
Colonel Herrick's Regiment, Vermont Troops. 

Great-grandson of Benjamin Bartholomew (1752-1812); 
Member of the Provincial Assembly for Chester County, 
Pennsylvania, and a member of the Committee of Safety, 
1772 to 1775; First Lieutenant, Fourth Pennsylvania 
Battalion, January 5, 1776; Captain, Fifth Pennsylvania 
Battalion, October 2, 1776; retained to January 1, 1783. 

Great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Fish, Jr.; private in 
Captain H. Edgerton's Company of Norwich, Connecti- 
cut; Private in Captain Simon Fish's Company of Colonel 
Freeman's Regiment. 

Gerald de Courcy May. March 26, 1910. 

1325 "K" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of John May (1748-1812); Mem- 
ber of Boston "Tea Party," 1773; Colonel, First or Bos- 



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ELECTED 

ton Regiment, Massachusetts Militia; Major under 
Count de Rochambeau in Rhode island. 

Great-great-grandson of Edzvard Coursey; Captain in 
Revolution, 1778. 

Henry May. June 25, 1892. 

1325 "K" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of John May (1748-1812); Member 
of Boston "Tea Party," 1773; Colonel, First or Boston 
Regiment, Massachusetts Militia; Major under Count 
de Rochambeau in Rhode Island. 

Great-grandson of Edward Coursey; Captain in Revolu- 
tion, 1778. 

Henry Coleman May. April 5, 1907. 

Diplomat, State Department. 1325 "K" Street, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of John May (1748-1812); Mem- 
ber of Boston "Tea Party," 1773; Colonel, First or Bos- 
ton Regiment, Massachusetts Militia; Major under 
Count de Rochambeau in Rhode Island. 

Great-great-grandson of Edzvard Coursey; Captain 
in Revolution, 1778. 

William Payne Meredith. December 13, 1915. 

Insurance. 16 E. Melrose Street, Chevy Chase, Md. 

Great-great-grandson of Captain William Payne 
(1758- . . . .)> who organized and commanded the "Fal- 
mouth Blues" of Fredericksburg, Virginia, during the 
Revolutionary War. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Colonel John Contee 
(1722-1796); was a signer of the "Association of the 
Freemen of Maryland" July 26, 1775. 

Great-great-grandson of Richard A. Contee (1753- 
1818); who was an ensign in the Revolutionary period 
and participated in meeting of citizens held in Upper 
Marlborough, 1775; and was placed on the Committee 
of Inspection for Patuxent District, to watch the move- 
ments of the British ships. 

Great-great-great-great-grandson of Captain William 
Bowie, who was on June 22, 1774, a delegate from Prince 
George's County, to Annapolis Convention; was a mem- 
ber of the Commission of Correspondence and was one of 



98 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 
the signers of the Association of Freemen of Maryland. 
He served with the patriots to organize the Minute Men. 
Great-great-great-grandson of Walter Bowie of Mary- 
land, who was very prominent during the Revolution 
and was twice Congressman. He also signed the "Associ- 
ation of Maryland Freemen." 

William Park Metcalf. May 13, 1891. 

Attorney-at-Law. 1122 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Peleg Thomas (1736-1836); 
Lieutenant in Captain Rudd's Company, Twelfth Regi- 
ment Connecticut Militia, Colonel Jonathan Trumbull; 
Member National Council of Safety. 

Great-grandson of Moses Maynard (1756-1835); who 
was mustered for Burgoyne's Campaign, August 22, 
1777; in Captain Wales' Company, Colonel Jonathan 
Latimer's Regiment. 

Benjamin de Mier Miller. November 4, 1895. 

Lumber. New York Avenue and Sixth Street, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Great-grandson of John Libbey (1760-1812) of New 
Hampshire; Private, Colonel Joshua Wingate's New 
Hampshire Regiment. 

William Mitchell. March 31, 1920. 

Brigadier General, U. S. Army. Director Air Service, 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Jonathan Danforth of Massa- 
sachusetts, who was in Captain Howard's Company at 
Battle of Bunker Hill; Was in Asa Danforth's Company 
at Bennington, and with troops of General Gates at 
Saratoga. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Thomas Danforth, who 
was a Minute Man and fought at Bunker Hill. 

Great-grandson of Philip Becker of New York, who was 
a Private in Captain Koch's Company, Colonel Klock's 
Regiment and he rendered valuable services as a scout. 

Harry Thornton Moore. October 30, 1918. 

Major, Quartermaster Corps, U. S. A. Assistant Zone 

Transportation Officer, Jeffersonville, Ind. 

Great-grandson of Moses Moore, Quartermaster Ser- 
geant, Lee's Legion, Virginia. 



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ELECTED 

Howell Morgan. May 6, 1903. 

Chief Clerk, Indian Service. 219 St. Philip Street, 
Baton Rouge, La. 

Great-great-grandson of George Morgan (1742-1810) of 
Pennsylvania; First Lieutenant, First Voluntter Com- 
pany, Philadelphia; Commissioned Colonel, January 8th, 
1777; acted as Deputy Commissary General of Washing- 
ton's Army at Valley Forge. 

James Morris Morgan. December 3, 1901. 

1735 Twentieth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of George Morgan (1742-1810); First 
Lieutenant, First Volunteer Company, Philadelphia; 
commissioned Colonel, January 8th, 1777; acted as 
Deputy Commissary General of Washington's Army at 
Valley Forge. 

Steuart Brown Muncaster. June 7, 1897. 

Physician. 931 Fifteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Zadock Magruder; Colonel 
of Lower Battalion, of Lower District of Frederick 
County, Maryland. 

Great-great-grandson of Archibald Orme (1730-1810); 
Colonel, Maryland Militia. 

George Hewitt Myers. October 18, 1915 

Forester. 2310 "S" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Major General Israel 
Putnam (1718-1790) of Connecticut; Lieutenant Colonel 
in the Lexington Alarm, April, 1775; Colonel Third 
Connecticut, May 1, 1775; Major General Continental 
Army, June 19, 1775; relieved, June 3, 1783. 

John Twiggs Myers. January 10, 1917. 

Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps. Commanding Marine Bar- 
racks, Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, H. T. 

Great-grandson of General John Twiggs, who raised a 
partisan Legion and was in many expeditions against the 
British with the commission of Colonel in the Georgia 
Militia; Commissioned as Brigadier General in August, 
1781; and served to the end of the war. 



100 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 

John Lowe Newbold. May 27, 1915. 

President, Merchants Transfer and Storage Company. 
920 " E" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of William Churchill Houston; 
Member of the Continental Congress, 1776; Captain, 
Second Battalion, Somerset, New Jersey Militia, 1776. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Jonathan Phillips (1744- 
1801); Second Lieutenant, Second New Jersey, Novem- 
ber, 1775; First Lieutenant, November 29, 1775; Captain, 
Fourth Regiment, Hunterdon, New Jersey Militia, May 
10, 1777, and served to April, 1783. 

Newbold Noyes. September 30, 1920. 

Journalist. 1614 "S" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson or William Churchill Hous- 
ton; Member of the Continental Congress, 1776; Captain, 
Second Battalion, Somerset, New Jersey Militia, 1776. 

Great-great-great-great-grandson of Jonathan Phillips 
(1744-1801); Second Lieutenant, Second New Jersev, 
November, 1775; First Lieutenant, November, 29, 1775; 
Captain, Fourth Regiment, Hunterdon, New Jersey 
Militia, May 10, 1777, and served to April, 1783. 

Charles Fitz Randolph Ogilby. September 26, 1917. 

Attorney-at-Law. 1416 "F" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Moses Scott (1737-1821); 
Surgeon Second Regiment Middlesex County New Jersey 
Militia; Colonel John Whitehead, February 14, 1776; ap- 
pointed Senior Physician and Surgeon of the General Hos- 
pital, Middle District, Continental Army to date from 
June 1, 1777; resigned December 13, 1780. 

William Otway Owen. September 30, 1920. 

Colonel (Medical Corps) U. S. Army {Retired). 1719 
Ontario Road, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Owen Owens of Virginia (1752-1819); 
Private in Captain John Abner's Company (patrollers 
of Staunton) of Virginia, Augusta County, Militia. 

Edward Macomber Padelford. February 6, 1900. 

Knickerbocker Club, New York, N. Y. 

Great-grandson of Philip Padelford (1753-1815); 
Surgeon's mate in Colonel Thomas Carpenter's Regiment, 
Massachusetts Militia, 1779; Surgeon, on ship-of-war 
General Mifflin, Captain George M. Babcock, 1780. 



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ELECTED 

Brainard W Parker November 7, 1919. 

Attorney-at-Lazv . 2118 LeRoy Place, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Davi d Doty (1741-1817); Lieu- 
tenant in Captain David Down's Company of Colonel 
Charles BurralPs Regiment of Connecticut Continental 
Infantry (1776); Served in the Northern army under 
General Gates, appointed Wagonmaster August 3, 1776; 
Engaged in affair at Cedars, Canada, forty miles above 
Montreal, May 19, 1776. 

William Scott Parks. December 13, 1915. 

Treasury Department. The Farragut, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Reuben Parks (1755-1802); Private 
in Captain Malcolm Henry's Company, Colonel David 
Brewer's Regiment, Ninth Massachusetts. 

Albion Keith Parris. December, 29, 1890. 

Banker. 823 Fifteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Samuel Parris (1755-1847); Orderly 
Sergeant in Colonel Paul Dudley Sargeant's Regiment; 
was in naval service, and afterwards Commissioned Lieu- 
tenant in Massachusetts State Troops. 

Great-great-grandson of Benjamin Parris (1731-1815); 
Private, Colonel John Cushing's and Colonel T. Colton's 
Massachusetts Regiments, from September, 1776, to 
October, 1777; Sergeant, Colonel John Whitney's Mass- 
achusetts Regiment from July, 1778, to September, 1778; 
Private, Colonel N. Tyler's and Major E. Cary's Mass- 
achusetts Regiments from December, 1779, to July, 1780; 
Sergeant, Colonel W. Turner's Massachusetts Regiment 
from July, 1781, to December, 1781; Private, Captain E. 
Sparrow's Company, March, 1783. 

Albion Keith Parris, Jr. May 21, 1906. 

Bureau of Mines. 3140 "Q" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Samuel Parris (1755-1847); 
Orderly Sergeant in Colonel Paul Dudley Sargeant's 
Regiment; was in naval service, and afterwards com- 
missioned Lieutenant in Massachusetts State Troops. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Benjamin Parris (1731- 
1815); Private, Colonel John Cushing's and Colonel T. 
Colton's Massachusetts Regiments, from September, 1776 



102 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ELECTED 
to October, 1777; Sergeant, Colonel J. Whitney's Mas- 
sachusetts Regiment, from July, 1778, to September, 1778; 
Private, Colonel N. Tyler's and Major E. Cary's Mas- 
sachusetts Regiments from December, 1779, to July, 1780; 
Sergeant, Colonel W. Turner's Massachusetts Regiment 
from July, 1781, to December, 1781; Private, Captain 
E. Sparrow's Company, March, 1783. 

Morris Addison Parris. May 26, 1914. 

Bureau of Standards. The Farragut, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Samuel Parris (1755-1847); 
Orderly Sergeant in Colonel Paul Dudley Sargeant's Regi- 
ment; was in naval service, and afterwards commissioned 
Lieutenant in Massachusetts State Troops. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Benjamin Parris (1731- 
1815); Private, Colonel John Cushing's and Colonel T. 
Colton's Massachusetts Regiments, from September, 
1776, to October, 1777; Sergeant, Colonel J. Whitney's 
Massachusetts Regiment, from July, 1778, to September, 
1778; Private, Colonel N. Tyler's and Major E. Cary's 
Massachusetts Regiments from December, 1779, to July, 
1780; Sergeant, Colonel W. Turner's Massachusetts Regi- 
ment from July, 1781, to December, 1781; Private, Cap- 
tain E. Sparrow's Company, March, 1783. 

Worden Whitman Parris. December 13, 1915. 

Lincoln Motors. 794 Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 

Great-great-grandson of Samuel Parris (1755-1847); 
Orderly Sergeant in Colonel Paul Dudley Sargeant's 
Massachusetts Regiment; was in naval service and 
afterwards commissioned Lieutenant in Masaschusetts 
State Troops. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Benjamin Parris (1731- 
1815; Private, Colonel John Cushing's and Colonel T. 
Colton's Massachusetts Regiments, from September, 
1776, to October, 1777; Sergeant, Colonel J. Whitney's 
Massachusetts Regiment, from July, 1778, to September, 
1778; Private, Colonel N. Tyler's and Major E. Cary's 
Massachusetts Regiments from December, 1779, to July, 
1780; Sergeant, Colonel W. Turner's Massachusetts Regi- 
ment from July, 1781 to December, 1781; Private, Cap- 
tain E. Sparrow's Company, March, 1783. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 103 

ELECTED 

Albert Sidney Parry. March 29, 1916. 

Chief Clerk, Accounting Department, Potomac Electric 
Power Company. 1801 Wyoming Avenue, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Richard Cawthorn who served 
in Captain Garland Burnley's Company, Colonel Francis 
Taylor's Regiment of Virginia Guards. 

Armistead Peter, Jr. June 5, 1893. 

Tudor Place, 31st and "0" Streets, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Richard Kennon; Lieutenant in the 
Fifth Regiment, Virginia Troops, Continental Army. 

Great-great-grandson of John Parke Custis of Virginia; 
stepson and Aide-de-Camp to General Washington. 

Armistead Peter, III March 17,1920. 

Tudor Place, 31st and "Q" Streets, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Richard Kennon, Lieutenant in 
the Fifth Regiment, Virginia Troops, Continental Army. 

Great-great-great-grandson of John Parke Custis of 
Virginia; stepson and Aide-de-Camp to General Wash- 
ington. 

Raymond Emerick Peterson. January 10, 1916. 

Court Appraiser. 1499 Irving Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Benjamin Peterson (1756-1830) of 
New York; who served with Albany County Militia. 

Edwin Taylor Pollock. April 23, 1919. 

Captain, U. S. Navy. Navy War College, Newport, R. I. 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Othniel Taylor (1719- 
1788); member of the Committee of Safety of Charle- 
mont, Massachusetts. Had six sons in the Revolutionary 
War. 

Great-grandson of Enos Taylor (1751-1831); Private, 
Captain Samuel Taylor's (his brother's) company, Colo- 
nel Porter's Regiment. Enlisted July, 1777. 

Great-grandson of Abel Warner (1763-1837); served 
three months in the Continental Army. 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Elijah Warner (1738- 
1819); First Lieutenant, Captain Josiah Lock's Company, 
Tenth Regiment of Massachusetts Militia; Captain, 
May 23, 1783; of Militia Company of Hardwick. 



104 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 
Great-great-grandson of Sylvanus Cook (1738-1814); 
Private, Captain Ebenezer Washburn's Company, Colo- 
nel Thomas Lothrop's Regiment; Private, Captain Noah 
Nichols' Company, of Artillery Officers, General Knox's 
Artillery Brigade; Private, Captain Nichols' Company, 
Colonel Baldwin's Regiment of Artificers. 

David Dixon Porter. May 27, 1915. 

Colonel, Assistant Adjutant and Inspector, U. S. Marine 
Corps. 2113 "0" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of David Porter (1754-1808); 
Captain, Continental Privateer Service; commanded sev- 
eral armed vessels, among them the sloop Delight of 
six guns, fitted out in Maryland, and the ship Aurora, 
of ten guns, belonging to the State of Massachusetts; 
escaped from the prison-ship Jersey; actively engaged 
as a privateersman until the end of the war, when he 
was commissioned by Washington a Sailing Master in 
the new Navy; in 1779 commanded the ship General 
Putnam on the Penobscot expedition fitted out at Boston. 

Great-great-grandson of Captain Alexander Porter 
(1727- . . . .); though too old to bear arms, "was present 
at the Boston Tea Party, moulded bullets for the battle 
of Bunker Hill, and set an example of resistance to the 
British crown." 

Great-great-grandson of William Anderson (1763- 
1829); of Chester, Pennsylvania; First Lieutenant, 
Eighth Pennsylvania, January, 1777; wounded at 
Brandywine; Colonel, 1779; at Valley Forge, German- 
town, and Yorktown. 

Lester Amos Pratt. December 9, 1919. 

Accountant, Compensation Board, Navy Department. 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of William Pratt (. . . .-1845) of 
Rhode Island; senior sergeant and later promoted to Lieu- 
tenant in Colonel Israel Angell's Rhode Island Regiment 
of General Varnum's Brigade. 

Philip Maxwell Prescott. April 2, 1894. 

Clergyman. Metropolitan Club, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Jeremiah Prescott (1741-1817); 
of Espan, New Hampshire, who signed the Association 
List, 1776; Lieutenant, Colonel Stephen Evans' Regi- 
ment; Captain, Colonel Thomas Stickney's Regiment; 
Colonel, State Militia. 



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ELECTED 

Russell Benjamin Putnam. October 24, 1916. 

Major, Assistant Paymaster, U. S. Marine Corps. First 
Provisional Brigade Marines, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 

Great-great-grandson of Caleb Putnam (1763-....); 
Private in Captain Bartholomew Woodbury's Company, 
Colonel Lerned's Regiment, Massachusetts troops. 

John Van Pelt Quackenbush. December 3, 1895. 

Merchant. 1541 Adams Avenue, Scranton, Pa. 

Great-great-grandson of Nicholas Quackenbush (1734- 
1813) of New York; Major and Assistant Deputy Quarter- 
master, Continental Army. 

Irving Wallace Rand. November 6, 1893. 

Colonel {Medical Corps), U. S. Army. Camp Travis, Tex. 

Great-great-grandson of Ephraim Rand; Private, 
Captain Shortridge's Company, Colonel Enoch Poor's 
Regiment, New Hampshire Troops, enlisted July 7, 

1775. 

William Stewart Reyburn. March 2, 1915. 

2200 Kalorama Road, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Joseph Crain (1738-1789); 
First Lieutenant, Captain Richard McQueen's Com- 
pany, Colonel Timothy Green's Battalion, Lancaster 
County, 1776; Captain, Second Company, Sixth Bat- 
talion, Colonel John Rogers. 

George Richards. May 22, 1912. 

Brigadier General, The Paymaster, U. S. Marine Corps. 
Headquarters, Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Rogers; Private, 
Captain William Peeble's Company of the Second Bat- 
talion, Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, commanded by 
Colonel Daniel Brodhead; captured at the battle of 
Long Island, September 4, 1776, and died in captivity 
on the prison-ship Jersey. 

Edward Fisk Riggs. October 2, 1900. 

Insurance. 815 Fifteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Moses Riggs (1760-. . . .); Private, 
Humphrey's Company, Connecticut Line, 1777. 



106 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 

John Boursiquot Rose. May 27, 1915. 

Colonel, Ordnance Department, U. S. Army. Office of 
Chief of Ordnance, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Joseph Blackzvell (1750-1823); 
signer of the "Westmoreland Protest;" Second Lieuten- 
ant, Tenth Virginia (Continental) Regiment; First Lieu- 
tenant, Sixth Virginia; Captain in 1781; Major, Subsis- 
tence Department, Virginia Line. 

Horace Dodge Rouzer. March 17, 1920. 

Lieutenant Commander {Civil Engineer) U. S. Navy. 
3519 Porter Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Peter Shorer (1755-1795) 
of Maryland; first lieutenant in Captain Jacob Ambrose's 
Company Flying Camp. 

Elmer Gardner Runyan, May 16, 1893. 

Chemist. 419 Tenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of James Gardner (1760-1838); Private, 
Captain Vandyke's Company, Colonel Thompson's Regi- 
ment, New Jersey Militia. 

Benjamin Reeves Russell. April 5, 1907. 

(By transfer from Pennsylvania Society) 

Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps {Retired). 

Kensington, Md. 

Great-grandson of John Russell (1759-1836); Private in 
Captain Woodbury's Company, Colonel Greaton's Regi- 
ment. 

Cary Rochester Sage September 30, 1920. 

U. S. Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Private Daniel Sage (1756- 
1852), Connecticut Line; Served with Arnold in Quebec 
Expedition and endured much suffering in retreat from 
Canada, and he also served in the Burgoyne campaign; 
Enlisted 1775 under Captain Wright and served in the 
Canadian Campaign, Connecticut Line. Enlisted 1776 
under Captain Wheeler, Massachusetts Line, was at 
Ticonderoga; enlisted under Captain Waters in the 
New York Line to defend the Hudson River. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 107 

ELECTED 

Francis Preston Blair Sands. May 13, 1890. 

Attorney-at-Law . Kellogg Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Ephraim French (1751-1834); Ser- 
geant William Barrow's Company, Colonel Isaac Wyman's 
New Hampshire Regiment. 

Joseph Prentice Sanger. November 15, 1892. 

Major-General, U. S. Army (Retired). 1302 Eighteenth 

Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Richard Sanger (1706-1786); 
Member of Massachusetts Committee on Safety; also a 
member of Provincial Congress. 

Great-grandson of Eli Butler (1740-1802); Captain in 
Sheldon's Regiment of Light Horse. 

William Henry Saunders September 30, 1920. 

Real Estate. 1457 Fairmont Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Henry Saunders (Sanders) of North 
Carolina. Musician in Captain Brevard's Company of 
Colonel Abraham Shepard's (Tenth) Regiment of the 
Continental Line (North Carolina Troops). Service of 
eighteen months from 1782. 

Guy Tyrell Scott. February 7, 1917. 

Major (Artillery Corps), U. S. Army (Retired). President 

Continental Trust Company, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Joseph Whitaker (. . . .-1805); 
Private in the Company of Captain James Foster's Fif- 
teenth Virginia Regiment. Enlisted June 16, 1777. 

Robert Preston Shealy. January 7, 1920. 

Attorney-at-Law. 11 East Melrose Street, Chevy Chase, Md. 

Great-great-grandson of Christopher Shealy, private in 
Captain Michael Halm's Company, Pennsylvania Militia. 
Participated in the Battle of Brandywine. 

Henry Harrison Sheets. February 7, 1917. 

Drawer 746, National Association for Universal Military 

Training, Chicago, III. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Major General Arthur St. 
Clair (1734-1818); appointed Colonel in Continental 



108 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ELECTED 
Army, 1776; made Major General February, 1777 and 
remained in active service until close of war, 

Great-great-grandson of John Lawrence (1751-1799); 
First Lieutenant, Fifth Pennsylvania Battalion, 1776; 
Captain, 12th October, 1776. 

Great-great-grandson of Archibald Cary (1720-1786); 
President of House of Burgesses at beginning of Revolu- 
tion; Member of Virginia Convention, 1776; Chairman 
of Committee of the Whole of Convention, reported the 
resolution instructing the Virginia delegates in Congress 
to propose Independence. 

Thomas Rochester Shepard. July 27, 1920. 

(By transfer from the Washington Society) 

Attorney-at-Law . 1339 Fourteenth Street, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Nathaniel Rochester; member ot Pro- 
vincial Convention of North Carolina; Major of North 
Carolina Militia; participated in battle of Moore's Creek; 
Paymaster, Sixth Regiment, North Carolina Line; Com- 
missary General, North Carolina. 

French Cameron Simpson. March 31, 1920. 

The Fairfax, Alexandria, Va. 

Great-great-grandson of Richard Cro ss (1750-1800) ; who 
enlisted September 6, 1777; Corporal in Captain John 
Winston's Company, First and Tenth Virginia Regiments, 
commanded by Colonel William Davies. 

Great-great-grandson of Ebenezer Bacon (1752-1817), 
who served as a private in Captain Nye's Company, 
Massachusetts Regiment, stationed at Elizabeth Island. 

George Robbins Simpson. March 20, 1918. 

The Fairfax, Alexandria, Va. 

Great-great-grandson of Richard Cross (1750-1800); 
who enlisted September 6, 1777; Corporal in Captain 
John Winston's Company, First and Tenth Virginia 
Regiments commanded by Colonel William Davies. 

Great-great-grandson of Ebenezer Bacon (1752-1817); 
who enlisted January 25, 1776 and served as a Private in 
Captain Nye's Company, Massachusetts Regiment sta- 
tioned at Elizabeth Island. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 109 



ELECTED 

Clinton Gold Smith. January 7, 1920. 

U. S. Forest Service. 2804 Fourteenth Street, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 
Great-great-great-grandson of Stephen Dodge; ap- 
pointed Ensign and later promoted Lieutenant in the 
Continental Army, November 19, 1776. 

Wilbur Lee Smith. July 27, 1920. 

Captain, Quartermaster Corps, U. S. Army. 103 The Onta- 
rio, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of John Bell of Virginia; revolu- 
tionary ensign, receiving grant of sixty-six and two- 
thirds acres of land in Amherst County, Virginia, for 
services rendered 
William Walker Smith. December 13, 1915. 

Secretary, American Legation, Berne. Switzerland. 

Great-great-grandson of Levi Smith (1761-1828) of 
Massachusetts; fifer in Captain Reuben Dickinson's 
Company, Colonel Woodbridge's Regiment; Fifer m Cap- 
tain John Thompson's Company, Colonel Lenard's Regi- 
ment; fifer in Captain Samuel Cook's Company, Colonel 
Woodbridge's Regiment; fifer in Captain Abner Pomeroy 
Company, Colonel Ezra Wood's Regiment; Fife Major 
in Captain John Harlow's Company, Colonel Ezra Wood's 
Regiment; fifer, Captain Elijah Dwight's Company, 
Colonel Elisha Porter's Regiment. 

Great-great-grandson of David Walker of Newcastle 
County, Delaware (1752-1810); Private, Captain Dean's 
Company, Colonel Samuel Patterson's Regiment, Dela- 
ware Troops, August 13, 1776. 

Great-great-grandson of Jeremiah Van Deventer of New 
Jersey (1741-1806) of Somerset County, New Jersey; Pri- 
vate, Somerset County, New Jersey, Militia. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Martin Smith of Mas- 
sachusetts (1730-1780), of Amherst, Massachusetts; Pri- 
vate Captain Reuben Dickinson's Company, Colonel 
Woodbridge's Regiment, Lexington Alarm, April 19, 
1775. Private, Captain James Hendricks's Company, 
Charlestown, Massachusetts, January 13, 1776. 

William Tayloe Snyder. January 10, 1917. 

Clergyman. 1317 Nineteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 
Great-great-grandson of Benjamin Ogle (1746-1809); 
who was a Major of the Maryland Militia in 1775-1776. 



110 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 

Hugh Maclellan Southgate. March 6, 1914. 

Engineer. Chevy Chase, Maryland. 

Great-great-great-great-grandson of Hugh McLellan 
(1710-1787); Chairman, Committee on Purchases, 1775, 
Gorham, Maine, contributed funds to the cause of Amer- 
ican Independence, 1775-1781. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Joseph McLellan (1733- 
1820); Member, Committee Inspection and Safety, 1775; 
Private, Captain Hart Williams' Company, Colonel Ed- 
mund Phinney's (Massachusetts) Regiment, 1775, after- 
wards Eighteenth Continental Regiment, 1776; Private, 
Captain Josiah Jenkins' Company, Colonel Samuel 
Brewer's Regiment (Twelfth Massachusetts), 1777-1779; 
Commissary, Baggaduce Expedition; Second Lieutenant, 
Captain Joseph Pride's Company, Colonel Joseph Prime's 
Regiment, 1780-1781; First Lieutenant, Captain Joseph 
Reed's Company, Colonel Samuel McCobb's Regiment, 
1781. 

Great-great-grandson of Levi Hooper (1742-1806); 
Lieutenant in (Walpole) New Hampshire Militia, 1776; 
Lieutenant in Colonel Benjamin Bellow's Regiment 
(New Hampshire), 1777-1778; one of Committee to Gen- 
eral Assembly, 1777; Captain at Newbury, Vermont, 
1780. 

Great-great-grandson of Jacob Foster (1732-1798); 
Chaplain, Colonel James Scanlon's New Hampshire 
Regiment, 1775; Chaplain, Colonel Edmund Spinney's 
New Hampshire Regiment, 1776. 

Martin Robinson Speelman July 27, 1920. 

Government Printing Office. 153 Rhode Island Avenue, 
N. E., Washington, D. C. 
Great-great-grandson of William Peirson; private 
Essex County, New Jersey, Militia. 

Henry Benning Spencer. September 26, 1917. 

President, Fruit Growers' Express Company. 2012 Massa- 
chusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. 
Great-great-grandson of Captain Richard P. White 
(1758-1814); Captain in the Virginia Convention Guards. 

John Keim Stauffer. June 4, 1900. 

(By transfer from Pennsylvania Society) 

Journalist. University Club, Washington, D. C. 521 

Court Street, Reading, Pa. 

Great-great-great-great-grandson of Archibald Cary 

(1720-1786); Lieutenant, Spottsylvania County, Virginia 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 111 



ELECTED 

Minute-Men, September 12, 1775; Colonel, Virginia 
Militia; an ardent patriot and leading member of all the 
Revolutionary Conventions of Virginia; President, Vir- 
ginia Committee of Safety, 1776; reported resolutions, 
in convention, instructing Virginia Delegates in Congress 
to declare for independence; Speaker, Virginia State 
Senate, 1776-1778. 

Great-great-grandson of John Keim (the younger) 
(1749-1819); Private, Captain Peter Nagle's Company, 
Lieutenant Colonel Nicolas Lutz's Fourth Battalion, 
Colonel Joseph Hiester's Regiment, Berks County, Penn- 
sylvania Militia, 1777; Captain, Colonel Jacob Weaver's 
Fifth Battalion, Berks County, Pennsylvania Militia, 
1778. 

Franklin Steele, Jr. March 6, 1890. 

1326 Eighteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Samuel Chase (1741-1811 of Mary- 
land; Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

Franklin Topping Steele. January 7, 1920. 

Captain, Assistant Adjutant and Inspector, U. S. Marine 
Corps. Headquarters, Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Samuel Chase (1741- 
1811). Member General Assembly of Maryland, 1774; 
Delegate to First Congress, 1776; represented Maryland 
in the General Congress. One of the Signers of the Dec- 
laration of Independence. 

John Truesdale Stewart. November 7, 1919. 

Civil Engineer. 2223 Knapp Street, St. Paul, Minn. 

Great-great-grandson of Robert McTeear (1741-1811); 
Captain, Eighth Company, Fourth Battalion, Cumber- 
land County, Pennsylvania, Militia. 

Herman Osman Stickney. November 5, 1894. 

Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy, Board of Inspection. 514 Shel- 
don Building, San Francisco, Calif. 

Great-great-grandson of Abram Stickney (1733-1803) 
Massachusetts; Lieutenant, Captain Joseph B. Var- 
l's Company, Colonel Mcintosh's Regiment, 1778. 



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112 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ELECTED 

John Patten Story, Jr. December 13, 1915. 

Real Estate. 1112 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Elisha Story (1743-1805) of 
Massachusetts; who was surgeon in Colonel Little's Regi- 
ment at Bunker Hill. Was one of the " Sons of Liberty" 
who disguised as Indians threw the tea overboard in 
Boston Harbor. He led a party of men to a spot in 
Boston Common and while he held a gun at the sentinel's 
head, two men dragged a field piece from the ground, 
said field piece being one of those placed near Bunker 
Hill Monument. 

John Kennedy Stout. March 29, 1905. 

Special Agent, U. S. Federal Trade Commission. 

Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Seth Miner (1742-....); 
Orderly Sergeant to Colonel Jedediah Huntington at 
the siege of Boston; Ensign of the First Company, 
Twentieth Regiment, Connecticut Militia. 

Reeves Trenchard Strickland. May 3, 1905. 

Attorney-at-Law . Evans Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of George Trenchard, Jr.; Cap- 
tain, First Battalion, Salem County, New Jersey; Cap- 
tain, Salem Light Horse; Chairman, Committee of Safe- 
ty, Salem County, New Jersey. 

Jay Hale Sypher. March 2, 1915. 

Commander, U. S. Navy. Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H. 

Great-grandson of Abraham Sypher (1755-1841); Pri- 
vate in Captain Edward Parker's Company, Second 
Battalion, Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Colonel 
Thomas Hockley. 

Frank Stone Tainter. May 6, 1903. 

Civil Engineer. 60 Wall Street, New York, N. Y. 

Great-grandson of Benjamin Tainter (1753-1844) of 
Massachusetts; Private, Captain Seth Morse's Company 
of Minute Men, 1775; Captain Nathan Fisher's Company, 
Colonel Nathaniel Wade's Regiment, from July 20 to De- 
cember 31, 1778; Captain Timothy Brigham's Company, 
1779. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 113 

ELECTED 

Walter Wallace Talcott. May 27, 1915. 

Engineer. 2115 "P" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Elizur Talcott (1740- 
....); Colonel of Sixth Regiment, Connecticut Militia. 

Great-great-grandson of Asa Gage (1756-. . . .); Private 
in Captain Timothy Eaton's Company, Colonel John- 
son's Regiment, Massachusetts Minute Men, April 19, 
1775; served six days; also Private with Captain Na- 
thaniel Gage's Company, Gerish's Regiment of Guards, 
December 19, 1777, to April, 1778. 

William Henry Tayloe. December 13, 1915. 

Passenger Traffic Manager, Southern Railway. 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Benjamin Ogle (1746-1809); 
who was a Major of the Maryland Militia in 1775-1776. 

Lloyd Webb Taylor. March 31, 1920. 

Engineer. Superintendent of Wise County Highway, 
Decatur, Texas. 

Great-great-grandson of Samuel B. Webb (1753-1807) of 
Connecticut, who entered service as Lieutenant, wounded 
at Bunker Hill, Aide to General Putnam, Aide to General 
Washington, by act of Congress was made Brigadier Gen- 
eral. Was one of original sixteen signers of the Order of 
the Cincinnati of Connecticut. 

Carmi Alderman Thompson. September 30, 1920. 

Attorney-at-Lazv . Perry Payne Building, Cleveland, Ohio. 

Great-great-grandson of John Thomson (1750-1826); 
Captain of Virginia (Hanover County) State Militia. 

George Cyrus Thorpe. February 7, 1917. 

Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps. Army General Staff College, 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Gideon Walker (1738-1793); 
in Colonel Mead's Regiment of Militia and Captain Clag- 
horn's Company, May, 1777; Captain John Smith's 
Company in Colonel Warren's Regiment of Vermont 
Militia, November, 1778; in Captain Samuel Williams' 
Company, in Colonel Gideon Warren's Regiment of 
Militia, May, 1780; an Ensign in Captain Samuel Wil- 
liams' Company, in Colonel Ebenezer Allen's Regiment, 
October and November, 1870. 



114 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ELECTED 

Great-great-grandson of Daniel Marsh (1750-1808) of 
Vermont; in Captain Joshua Hozen's Company of Colo- 
nel Wood's Regiment, that marched with Lieutenant 
William Bramble to Dresden in the alarm of Newberry, 
when Colonel Thomas Johnson was carried away captive. 

Charles Trowbridge Tittmann. December 13, 1915. 

Attorney-at-Law . 901 Evans Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Abraham Whipple (1753- 
1805); June, 1772, commanded two ships provided by the 
Province of Rhode Island, and manned by volunteers; 
these two ships took and burned the British Revenue 
Schooner Gaspe in Narragansett Bay. This was the first 
popular uprising in this country against British armed 
vessels. In June, 1775, as Commodore of two armed 
vessels fitted out by the State of Rhode Island he cap- 
tured the British Sloop of War Rose. In this engage- 
ment Whipple fired the first shot of the Revolution to be 
fired on the water. During his service he commanded 
the armed vessels Columbus and Providence. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Ebenezer Sproat (1733- 
1819); Captain of Cotton's Massachusetts Regiment, 
April, 1775; Major Third Continental Infantry, 1776; 
Lieutenant Colonel Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, 
1777; Lieutenant Colonel commandant Twelfth Massa- 
chusetts, September, 1778; Colonel, 1783. 

John Van Rensselaer. February 19, 1892. 

Physician. The Rochambeau, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of James Van Rennsselaer (1747-1827) 
of New York; Major, Aide-de-Camp to General Richard 
Montgomery and General Philip Schuyler. 

John Van Schaick, Jr. March 14, 1906. 

Clergyman. 1417 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Lawrence Lawyer (1758- 
1848); Sergeant, Fifteenth Regiment, Albany County, 
York Militia, Colonel Peter Vroman, Commander. 

Great-grandson of Koert Van Schaick; Matross in 
Captain Barnes, Smocke Artillery Company, Middle 
Brigade; in battles of Quinton's Bridge, Hancock's 
Bridge, Three Rivers, Connecticut Farms, Van Neste's 
Mills, Long Island, Trenton, Assunpink, Princeton, 
Germantown, Springfield, Monmouth. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 115 



ELECTED 

Louis Joseph Van Schaick. March 6, 1914. 

Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. Army. Fort Leavenworth, Kan. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Lawrence Lawyer (1758- 
1848); Sergeant, Fifteenth Regiment, Albany County, 
New York Militia, Colonel Peter Vroman, Commander. 

George Peter Van Wyck. April 14, 1915. 

1601 New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Richard Van Wyck (1729- 
1810); Chairman Vigilance Committee, Hopewell, N. Y., 
and Civil Magistrate, 1775; Major in Colonel Abraham 
Brinkerhoff's (Second) Regiment, Dutchess County, 
New York Militia, 1775. 

Great-grandson of Cornelius R. Van Wyck (1758-1791); 
Civil Magistrate; one of the signers of the Revolutionary 
Pledge; Captain and Quartermaster in Colonel Abraham 
Brinkerhoff's (Second) Regiment, Dutchess County, 
New York Militia, 1780. 

Herbert Lee Van Wyck. November 15, 1915. 

Advertising Designer. 1826 Grace Avenue, New York, N. Y. 

Great-grandson of Theodorus Van Wyck (1757-1823); 
a Lieutenant of Militia. His sword is in Washington's 
Headquarters in Newburgh, N. Y. He was a presiden- 
tial elector of James Monroe, also a Magistrate. 

Floyd Pierpont Waggaman. February 15, 1912. 

Real Estate. 1833 Corcoran Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of John Tyler (1747-. . . .); father 
of President Tyler; First Lieutenant, Third Virginia In- 
fantry. 

Allan Elliott Walker. May 27, 1915. 

Real Estate. 1338 "G" Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of William Willcocks (1751-1826); 
Second Lieutenant in Colonel John Lasher's Battalion, 
New York Independent Companies, January 29, 1776; 
Captain, June 24, 1776; Aide-de-Camp to Major General 
Lord Stirling, April 13, 1777; commissioned Major of 
Infantry, 1779. 



116 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ELECTED 

William Henry Walker. March 6, 1914. 

Real Estate. 729 Fifteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of William Willcocks (1751-1826); 
Second Lieutenant in Colonel John Lasher's Battalion, 
New York Independent Companies, January 29, 1776; 
Captain, June 24, 1776; Aide-de-Camp to Major General 
Lord Stirling, April 13, 1777; commissioned Major of 
Infantry, 1779. 

William Miller Wallace. May 6, 1895. 

Brigadier-General, U. S. Army (Retired). Gate Hotel, 

Los Angeles, Calif. 

Great-great-grandson of William Brooke (1746-1829); 
Captain, Fourth Company, Third Battalion, Pennsyl- 
vania Militia, 1777; Major, Fourth Battalion, 1779; 
Major, Sixth Battalion, 1780; one of the Commissioners 
of Chester County to seize personal efFects of traitors. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Matthew Brooke (1719- 
1806); Member of the Provincial Conference of Penn- 
sylvania, 1776, who also sent two cannon to the Council 
of Safety of Pennsylvania. 

Littleton Waller Tazewell Waller. September 30, 1920. 

Major, U. S. Marine Corps. Headquarters, 

Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Benjamin Waller (1716- 
1786) of Williamsburg, Virginia; Clerk of Council; 
Member of the House of Burgesses (1745-1758); Member 
of the Convention 1775-76. Judge of the General 
Court (1779-1786). 

Great-great-grandson of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799); 
Member House of Burgesses of Virginia 1775; in Conven- 
tion of 1776; on the Committee that reported upon Dec- 
laration of Rights and the Constitution; Member of 
Legislature until 1775 when elected to Supreme Bench, 
of Virginia. 

Alexander Mackenzie Watson October 24, 1916. 

Major, U. S. Marine Corps. Naval Academy, 
Annapolis, Md. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Harry Innes (1752- 
1816); superintendent of lead and powder mills in Vir- 
ginia in 1776 under the direction of the Committee of 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 117 



ELECTED 

Safety and the Council of Virginia with rank of Colonel; 
Appointed Deputy Attorney for the County of Bedford, 
Virginia, by Gov. Henry, October 14, 1778; appointed by 
Thomas Jefferson, Gentleman Escheator for the County 
of Bedford, July 26, 1779; was Commissioner of Specific 
Tax in 1781; was commissioned District Commissioner 
by Gov. Benjamin Harrison for the Counties of Charlotte, 
Halifax, Henry, Bedford, and Campbell, March 27, 
1772; was Quartermaster for Bedford Militia. 

Hayward Hutchinson Webb. October 24, 1916. 

2029 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of John Webb (1759-....) of 
Connecticut; Captain, Second Regiment of Dragoons and 
Aide-de-Camp and Private Secretary to Major-General 
R. Howe. Was hardly of age during the War of Indepen- 
dence; was at one time special Aide to General Greene; 
the appointment, evidently written on the field, is in the 
possession of H. Randall Webb, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of John Randall (. . . .-1825) of 
Maryland; Was Clothier General to the Maryland Line, 
an officer taking the duties of Quartermaster, Paymaster 
and Commissary, with the relative rank of Colonel; was 
one of the Committee of Safety from Anne Arundel 
County and the family in Annapolis have letters indicat- 
ing that he held the rank of Ensign in the Colonial Militia. 

Frank Erastus Webner. September 30, 1920. 

Technical Advisor. Compensation Board, Navy Department. 

Great-great-great grandson of Private Silas Peck, 
Lyme, Connecticut (1724-1808). Enlisted May 10, 
1775, Eighth Company, Captain Samuel Gale, Colonel 
Samuel Holden Parsons' Sixth Regiment, Continental 
Troops; Re-enlisted February 10, 1777, Captain Elisha 
Lee's Company, Colonel John Durkee's Fourth Regiment, 
Connecticut Line. 

Walter Augustus Wells. June 27, 1912. 

Physician. The Rochambeau, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of Joshua Clarke (....-1781); 
First Lieutenant, Middle Battalion, Prince George Coun- 
ty, Maryland Troops (Militia.) 



118 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ELECTED 

Vernon Eskridge West. January 8, 1914. 

Attorney-at-Law. Century Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Thomas Washington 
(. . . .-1794); Second, and later First Lieutenant in Cap- 
tain Thomas Triplett's Company of Colonel William 
Grayson's Regiment of Virginia Foot, Continental Troops. 

Francis Bradford Wheaton. December 13, 1915. 

Major (Quartermaster Corps), U. S. Army. War 
Department. 

Great-grandson of Levi Wheaton (1761-1857) of Rhode 
Island; who participated as a "Minute Man" in the 
first battle of the Revolution, June 1, 1775. When a lad 
under 15 years of age he and his elder brother Joseph 
Wheaton joined a small party of patriotic youths in Provi- 
dence and marched 40 miles to join the three Rhode Island 
Regiments encamped near Boston under General Nathan- 
iel Greene and participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill. 

Charles Van Cise Wheeler. January 8, 1914. 

Capitalist. 1609 Sixteenth Street, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Andrew Rabb (....- 
1804); Captain, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania 
Rangers. 

Great-great-grandson of David Pollock (1755-....); 
Private in Captain James Maxfield's and later Captain 
Robert Campbell's Companies, Maryland Militia. 

George Yandes Wheeler. May 27, 1915. 

280 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Andrew Rabb (....- 
1804); Captain, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania 
Rangers. 

Great-great-grandson of David Pollock (1755-. . . .); 
Private in Captain James Maxfield's and later Captain 
Robert Campbell's Companies, Maryland Militia. 

Harry Marshall Wheeler December 13, 1915. 

Washington Steel iff Ordnance Company. 1868 Columbia 
Road, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Andrew Rabb (....- 
1804); Captain, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania 
Rangers. 



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ELECTED 
Great-great-grandson of David Pollock (1755-....); 
Private in Captain James Maxfield's and later Captain 
Robert Campbell's Companies, Maryland Militia. 

Norman Tweed Whitaker. December 11, 1916. 

Attorney-at-Law. Whitaker Building, 922 F Street, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Samuel Westcott (....- 
1792); Commanded a Company in Colonel Silas New- 
comb's Battalion of Cumberland County Militia; was in 
commission as Captain of New Jersey State Troops. 

George Whitney White. March 29, 1916. 

President, Metropolitan National Bank. Washington, D.C. 

Great-great-grandson of Daniel Barron (1755-1810); 
who enlisted in July, 1776 in Captain Belain Posey's 
Company, Charles County, under Colonel William 
Smallwood, General Rezen Beall of Prince George 
County, Commander, Maryland Flying Camp; also 
served through the New York campaign. 

Ernest Wilkinson. July 1, 1895. 

Attorney-at-Law. Ouray Building, Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of James Wilkinson (1757-1825) of 
Maryland; Captain, Second Continental Infantry, 1776; 
Aide-de-Camp to General Arnold; Brigade Major, and as 
such on the staff of General Gates; Brigadier General, 
Pennsylvania Militia, and Lieutenant Colonel, Com- 
mandant Second United States Infantry, 1791. 

Julian Parsons Willcox. October 24, 1916. 

Major, U. S. Marine Corps. U. S. S. Wyoming. 

Great-grandson of John Willcox (1760-1800); Private, 
in Captain Williams' Company, Connecticut Militia, 
1779; Seventh Connecticut, Colonel Heman Swift, 1780; 
Private, Captain Prentice's Company, Colonel McClel- 
lan, 1782. 

Dion Williams. April 14, 1915. 

Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps. Commanding Tenth Regi- 
ment, U. S. Marine Corps, Santo Domingo, D. R. 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel John Cooley; Adju- 
tant of the Third Regiment, West Chester County, New 



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ELECTED 

York Militia; later Adjutant of the Fourth Regiment 
from the same County and State. 

Great-great-grandson of John Parke (1760-1839); Pri- 
vate, who served during the Revolution in the Virginia 
Militia. 

Davis Bowles Wills. April 14, 1915. 

Auditor, The Thompson-Starrett Company, 149 West 
74th Street, New York, N. Y. 

Great-grandson of Isaac Davis (1754-....); Private, 
in Captain Thomas Walker's Company, Colonel William 
Fleming's (Virginia) Regiment, 1776; Lieutenant in 
Captain John Hunton's Company, Colonel James Ennis 
(Virginia) Regiment, 1780-1781; Captain in Colonel 
Reuben Lindsay's (Virginia) Regiment, May, 1781. 

Balch Beall Wilson. November 30, 1894. 

Schmelz National Bank, Newport Nezvs, Fa. 

Great-grandson of Stephen Bloomer Balch (1747- 
1833), of Deer Creek, Maryland; Captain of a company 
in Lower Marlborough, Maryland, 1777. 

James Sprigg Wilson. October 21, 1897. 

Colonel, (Medical Corps), U. S. Army. San Francisco, 

Calif. 

Great-grandson of Stephen Bloomer Balch (1747- 
1833), of Deer Creek, Maryland; Captain of a company 
in Lower Marlborough, Maryland, 1777. 

Mahlon Alpheus Winter. March 12, 1901. 

Manufacturing Chemist. Winter Building, 
Washington, D. C. 

Great-grandson of Joseph Winter; Minute Man in the 
Connecticut Troops; served in the Lexington Alarm 
under Captain Thomas Lawson, 1775; later served with 
General Israel Putnam. 

Leonard Wood. January 7, 1903. 

Major General, U. S. Army. Commanding Sixth Corps, 

Fort Sheridan, III. 

Great-great-grandson of John Nixon (1725-1815) of 
Massachusetts; commanded company of Minute Men, 
Lexington Regiment, at Bunker Hill. 



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ELECTED 

Robert Wickliffe Woolley. December 20, 1915. 

Interstate Commerce Commission. Eighteenth Street and 
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-grandson of John Howard (1732-1835) of 
Virginia; Volunteer at the battle of Guilford. While in 
the act of taking a wounded man from the field, he was 
attacked by Tarleton's Light Horse and received five 
wounds three of which were pronounced mortal by the 
physician who dressed them. 

Walter Fitzhugh Worthington. November 30, 1891. 

Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy (Retired). 16 Mission Ridge Road, 

Santa Barbara, Calif. 

Great-grandson of Nicholas Worthington (1732-1792); 
Major of Maryland Troops, and Delegate to Legislature 
of Maryland. 

Great-great-grandson of William Fitzhugh; Member, 
Maryland Legislature during the Revolution; Member 
of Council of Safety and Committee of Vigilance of 
Calvert County. 

Lee Warinner Wright. May 27, 1915. 

Captain, Assistant Paymaster, U. S. Marine Corps. 
Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. 

Great-great-great-grandson of James Pendleton (1740- 
1793); Ensign, Seventh Virginia, February 7, 1776; 
Second Lieutenant, April 26, 1776; Captain First Con- 
tinental (Virginia) Artillery, February 7, 1777; was in 
service October, 1778. 



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DONT TREAD ON ME 



I 



THE FIRST FLAG OF THE CONTINENTAL NAVY. PRESENTED TO 

THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. ON FEBRUARY 22. 1919. 



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A FLAG PRESENTATION ON WASHINGTON'S 
BIRTHDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1919 

The First Flag of the Continental Navy Presented to the Sons of the 
Revolution in the District of Columbia by the Patriotic League 
United States Marine Corps Recruiting Service. 

AT the Fifth Joint Celebration of George Washington's Birthday 
by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolu- 
tion, Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia, and 
the District of Columbia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 
at Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C, Saturday, Feb- 
ruary 22, 1919, a copy of the first flag of the Continental Navy was 
presented to the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia 
by Mrs. George Barnett for the Patriotic League United States 
Marine Corps Recruiting Service. 

The Presiding Officer was Mr. Elmer Marston Wentworth, of 
Iowa, Past President General, National Society Sons of the American 
Revolution. 

The following is an account of the Presentation Exercises: 

The Presiding Officer: Next in order is the presentation of 
the flag. This will be by Mrs. George Barnett, wife of the Major 
General Commandant of the Marine Corps of blessed memory and 
active opportunity — they never miss a scrap. It is particularly our 
pleasure at this time to have the wife of the Major General Com- 
mandant take an active part. Here is a lady that needs no introduc- 
tion to an American audience, Mrs. Barnett. 

Mrs. Barnett's Address: Five years ago the Societies associated 
here today began jointly to celebrate this National Holiday. Their 
effort was a success ; so the practice was renewed year after year, and 
this meeting at Memorial Continental Hall has become an expected 
event. The Sons of the Revolution, the Daughters of the American 
Revolution, and the Sons of the American Revolution express the same 
principles. They possess like obligations to preserve the memories of 
our War of the Independence and to promote a respect for the prin- 



124 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ciples for which the American patriot fathers fought. Your first 
joint meeting was at an historic time. The World then, in 1915, 
was involved in its greatest struggle against injustice and oppression. 
Men on the other side of the Atlantic looked for an ideal that might 
save them. All that civilization had ever gained for mankind was at 
stake. Opinion here on this side of the Atlantic was divided, while 
might was triumphant on the other side. And the eyes of the op- 
pressed there turned to America, but we did not respond, for our 
people did not realize what that war meant to them. America was 
searching for its soul. 

This war has produced many stories to inspire generations yet 
unborn. One of these we may well remember. Its hero was Lieu- 
tenant Pericard of the French Army. His company held an advanced 
post that had been severely attacked by the enemy. This was at 
Bois-Brule early in April of 1915. The trench was rilled with 
prostrate French soldiers. All resistance had been shattered. Then 
the Germans came! — on and on — then suddenly from this shambles, 
from this heap of dead and wounded — a shattered being arose, blood- 
stained and staggering, but still with his soul staunch within him. 
His arms reached out for a sack of hand grenades; his voice strong 
with a new strength, he shouted "Debout le morts!" (To your feet, 
ye dead!). That tangled mass of humanity writhed — and then it 
arose! Men who had been all but dead fought with the fury of fresh 
youth — fought until they died again. The invader was swept back — 
an inspired word had caused a resurrection! 

As America, back in those days of 1915 and after, was seeking its 
spirit, these three societies united their influence. Year after year 
you came together here, to honor on this day the memory of our 
Country's Father ; to give expression for what he stood for — to respect 
his words as we have just heard them read. And as America stood, 
a little child amongst the great warring nations, you sang here faint- 
heartedly the song of liberty for all. In the clash of clashes and the 
tumult of those times, that song was heard near and far. The heart 
of America awakened — the dead arose — for we found that we must 
enter the war to defend, not alone our liberty, but the liberty of the 
World. What warring peoples of Europe sought — were the Ameri- 
can ideals, the sacred principles of our Revolutionary fathers; freedom 
and equal opportunity for all. 

And so there came a resurrection of America! With the white 
hot blast of war the New World awakened. And when I speak of 
war, I must speak to one who knew war in the old days. To you, 
Dr. McKim ; you, sir, very early in your life, served as a soldier in 
the ranks. You learned there the soldier's first duty to advance the 
cause without thought of yourself. As you learned there to sink your 



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individuality in the cause; so has the Society of which you are an hon- 
ored member labored unselfishly to fulfill its duty. In the clash of 
times you gladly came here to this temple of the Daughters to unite 
your influence as a society with theirs and that of the Sons of the 
American Revolution. 

When a state of War against Germany was declared, a number 
of patriotic women in New York City, under the leadership of Mrs. 
Edith Skerrett Wills, the wife of an officer of the Marine Corps, 
formed a League to cooperate with the Recruiting Service of the 
Marine Corps. By public speaking and in many other ways, their 
efforts were directed to attract to the marines the best of American 
youth. Many of the men who fought so bravely at Chateau-Thierry 
and in the evil stretches of Belleau-Wood, were men who had listened 
to the pleas of these very women. In France, last summer, I looked 
upon many of their graves, silent rows of rectangles which speak a 
story of their sacrifice. There, near to the historic River Marne, 
under the orders of General Pershing, under the immediate com- 
mand of his former Chief of Staff, General Harbord, of the Army, 
these marines were permitted to demonstrate that the American soldier, 
properly trained, was better than the best the Prussian system could 
produce. 

Back in the days before the Revolution — in 1775, to be exact — 
before the United States of America could be called by that name, 
Benjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia, wrote that he had observed on 
one of the drums belonging to the marines, whose recruiters were 
raising two battalions, there was painted the rattlesnake with this 
motto under it, "Don't tread on me." He said, knowing it was the 
custom to have some device on the Arms of every country, that he 
supposed this design was intended for the Arms of North America. 
That corps of Marine drummers often marched the streets of Phila- 
delphia in those days, pounding their so-called musical instruments to 
"drum up" recruits. Later in the year 1775, Congress created the 
Continental Navy, and that device of the Marine drummers became 
the design of the Flag that flew from the mastheads of our first 
ships-of-war. 

The Thirteen Colonies were designated by the thirteen rattles of 
the snake, coiled ready to strike. And that self-same motto of the 
Marines, "Don't Tread on Me," was written on the Flag, the first 
Flag of the Continental Navy. 

Doctor McKim, on behalf of the women of the Patriotic League 
of the Marine Corps Recruiting Service, I wish to offer this flag to 
the Society you represent, as a token of our appreciation of your efforts 
as a Society to make these joint celebrations so successful and so en- 
during. 



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Music — "In Flanders Fields" (McCrae) — vocal, Miss Annie 
Jett; accompanied by Miss Christine Richards: 

In Flanders fields 
the poppies blow, 
Between the crosses, 
row on row, 
That mark our place; 
and in the sky, 
The larks still 
bravely singing fly, 
Scarce heard amidst the guns below. 

We are the dead; short days ago we 
lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, 
loved and were loved; and now we 
lie in Flanders fields. 

Take up our quarrel with the foe, 
To you from falling 
hands we throw the 
Torch. Be yours to 
hold it high. If ye 
break faith with us 
who die, we shall not 
sleep, though poppies 
grow in Flanders fields. 

Dr. McKim's Response: Madam, you do the society which I 
have the privilege of representing a great honor in the presentation, 
so gracefully and eloquently made, of this beautiful flag, which so 
strikingly symbolizes the fierce and aggressive spirit of the U. S. 
Marine Corps when called upon to defend the Republic from attack, 
— that spirit which led the enemy to dub them "Devil Dogs." 

May I beg you, dear Madam, to convey to the women of the 
Patriotic League of the Marine Corps Recruiting Service the grateful 
thanks of the Sons of the Revolution. 

We are descendants of the patriots who broke the yoke of a Ger- 
man despot seated on the throne of Old England, — England then 
counted our enemy, now, thank God, our friend, — yes our mightiest 
and staunchiest friend ; and remembering that the Marine Corps was 
organized in the City of Philadelphia in the year 1775, we feel that 
your organization stands for the same principles that ours does; and 
is irrevocably committed, as we are, to the preservation of the heritage 
of ordered Liberty and Representative Democracy under the aegis of 
the Constitution — the sheet anchor of our most sacred rights. We pay 
our tribute of love and loyalty to the Republic as Washington and 
his co-laborers fashioned it, — to the Constitution which they, with 
marvellous wisdom created and on this day we stand ready to pledge 
our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor to defend it from the 



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foul hands of those who would desecrate and destroy it, by whatso- 
ever name they may be called, Radicals, Socialists, Anarchists, Bol- 
shevists. 

May I recall to the audience the uniformly high and fine record of 
the Marine Corps ever since its organization under the shadow of the 
Revolution of '76. It has borne an honorable part in every war in 
which our country has been engaged. On many fields, in many parts 
of the world, in Tripoli — in Mexico — in China — and elsewhere, it 
has done distinguished and devoted service to the Republic. But its 
deeds of valor have never been so resplendent as in the great War for 
Liberty and Civilization just brought to a victorious conclusion. 

You, Madam, have truly said that the 4th Brigade of Marines^ 
under command of General Harbord, were permitted to demonstrate 
that the American soldier, when thoroughly trained, is superior to the 
best that the Prussian system can produce. Not once or twice or 
thrice, but many times on many bloody fields in France, that Brigade 
has, as part of the 2d Division, shed lustre on the shield of the Repub- 
lic. In the number of battles in which it was engaged without fail- 
ing to gain its objective, it stands in the unquestioned first rank. Its 
spirit was always indomitable despite severe punishment and heavy 
loss of life. In the words of its commander they waded into the 
Boche like a bunch of "Wildcats." 

It greatly distinguished itself on July 18th, in the great offensive, 
and again on September 12th to 15th. In the Champagne battle of 
October 2d to 10th, it bore a great part in driving the wedge by 
which General Petain forced the Germans to retreat 12 miles; and 
such was its valor that on the heights of Vallendar, overlooking the 
Rhine, on the anniversary of the Kaiser's birthday, four Legion of 
Honor decorations and 248 French War Crosses were pinned to 
the breasts of the heroes of that battle. In the words of Major- 
General John Lejeune: "This superb division of fighting men is 
unsurpassed in valor and skill, in endurance, in determination to 
conquer." 

But of all the deeds of the Marines I think the most glorious is 
that by which in the early days of June they halted the victorious 
advance of the German columns at Bouresches and Belleau Wood. 
I have read the official military diary of that struggle, and the record 
is that during all those ten days of terrific fighting "the line has 
receded nowhere and has everywhere advanced" and this although 
officers and men were ultimately in such a state of almost complete 
exhaustion that they fell asleep under bombardment. The Germans 
said that they found the Marines a bit worse than the Canadians and 
the British. The official report stated that they had not given one 
inch of ground. The Commander of the 23d Regiment of Infantry 
sent hearty congratulations, and added, "It will inspire all Americans." 
General Pershing telegraphed, "It was a magnificent example of 



128 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



American courage and dash." The Generalissimo himself, Marshal 
Foch, sent his love and congratulations. And the French General in 
immediate command issued an order changing the name Belleau Wood 
to "Le Bois de la Brigade de la Marines." 

That, I say, ladies and gentlemen, was the most gloriously achieve- 
ment of the Marines, because on that occasion they struck a blow 
which changed the whole aspect of the military situation. 

Let me recall the circumstances: The military authorities had 
decided to evacuate Paris. Then the German offensive had been 
launched, their legions were already near the gates. They were 
advancing in the pride and confidence of certain victory at the rate 
of 20 or 30 kilometers a day — marching in goose-step form — when 
those two Marine Regiments, the 5th and 6th, in cooperation with 
the 9th and 23d Infantry, struck them a blow which first surprised 
and then checked them, and then sent them staggering back. You 
remember, ladies and gentlemen, the circumstances. The gallant 
French were exhausted and overwhelmed and were retreating pre- 
cipitately. The officer in command sent the Marine Commander a 
written order to fall in rear of the French and retreat. The answer 
was laconic and very emphatic, but the diary simply says "that order 
was not obeyed." Indeed, the Marines, carefully and coolly adjusting 
their sights, met the onrushing hordes of Huns with a withering fire, 
and then charged, and after a bitter contest in which they lost five- 
eights of their numbers they swept back the Prussian Guards in defeat 
and confusion. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, that was the turning point of the war. 
That was the moment that marked the turn of the tide of the for- 
tunes of the campaign. What those intrepid men did that day 
electrified the Allied Armies — electrified all France — restored the 
morale of the weary English and French soldiers — demontsrated the 
reliability of the American fighting men — showed the stuff they were 
made of, and convinced Marshal Foch that the American Army was 
an asset of such value that it was possible for him to assume the 
offensive and drive the invader out of France. 



At the conclusion of the address the Quantico Glee Club, consisting 
of 50 enlisted men of the Marine Corps, under Song Leader Gilbert 
Wilson sang, "The Marines Hymn." 



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AN ADDRESS 

By Count de Chambrun, Counselor, The French Embassy (Repre- 
senting The Ambassador of France) at the Joint Celebration by 
the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons 
of the Revolution in the District of Columbia and the District of 
Columbia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the 
161st anniversary of the birth of the Marquis de Lafayette, Sep- 
tember 6, 1918. 

The Presiding Officer was Louis Annin Ames, Esq., New York 
City, President General, National Society Sons of the American 
Revolution, who said 

Our last speaker is the great-great grandson of Marquis de Lafay- 
ette, — Count de Chambrun, Counselor of the French Embassy. 

Mr. President, Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

On this anniversary, particularly dear to my heart, I feel deeply 
the honor of being called upon to speak, in the name of the Ambassa- 
dor of France, before this assembly graced by the presence of the 
President of the United States, whose name, blessed by all my fellow 
countrymen, is today as popular among them as Lafayette's with you. 
I am greatly honored also to address the distinguished representatives 
of the patriotic societies whose mission it is to preserve the sacred mem- 
ories of the American Revolution. 

No one ever more ardently cherished that revolution of independ- 
ence and liberty, whose purity of motives remains unsurpassed ; no one 
ever served it with greater fervor; no one has worshipped it with more 
heartfelt piety, than he whose birth you are celebrating today. 

Others may say what he did on the field of battle at the age of 
twenty years. What I wish to tell you, speaking at the base of this 
monument, is not that which his sword brought over to America, but, 
rather, that which his heart brought back to France. For it is not 
only the generous spontaneity with which he came to you, that causes 
you to bless his memory ; it is also the unfaltering fidelity with which, 
throughout the vicissitudes of a long career and in the midst of most 
troublous times, he never ceased to belong to you. He remained all his 
life the aide-de-camp of General Washington, whom he loved, as you 



130 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



know, with the tenderness of a friend and the respect of a son. All 
his life he was the zealous missionary of the cause of which that great 
man was the inspired patriarch. He had first set foot on your shores 
filled with all the enthusiasm of youth, eager for adventure, seeking 
fame; you sent him back to us with a soul truly republican, having 
exchanged his courtly conduct. 

This ideal, which was yours alone at that time, and whose lofty 
course more than a century of prosperity has not retarded, he pro- 
posed to his country. Through his example, America became popu- 
lar at the Court of Louis XVI. And later on, when the people of 
France, swayed by the spirit of the century and seized in their turn 
with the fever of Liberty, wished to build upon new foundations their 
political institutions and their social code, he had only one thought — 
to induce the French revolution to adopt the principles proclaimed by 
the revolution of America, and to start his own country along the 
road of this free and democratic government, of which your United 
States were then just beginning the great and conclusive experience. 

Read the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, which is 
the charter of our public rights, and of which Lafayette was the 
principal author, you will see there more than one resemblance to the 
Declaration of Rights of Virginia. Is it astonishing that we should 
be fighting today for the same principles? 

On the morrow of the fall of the Bastille, Lafayette presented 
France with her new colors. These were, by a providential coinci- 
dence, which he was the first to perceive and to rejoice over, the three 
colors of your glorious flag. They had been, in your country, the 
symbol of national independence ; with us, the emblem of political 
liberty. Today, illumined by the sun of victory and acclaim by two 
peoples whom they inspire with mutual love, they float together over 
the battlefields where are being decided the independence and liberty 
of all nations. 

To this ideal, to these principles, to this flag, he was invariably 
faithful. He was the enemy of absolutism from whatever source, 
whether it issued from the court, from the omnipotence of an assem- 
bly or from a mob. At the Tuileries as at the Town Hall of Paris, at 
the sessions of the Constituante, or in the presence of popular upris- 
ings, and even in the dungeons of Prussia and Austria, where he was 
confined for five years (for the despots of Central Europe have never 
had any tenderness for those who cherish liberty) everywhere and 
always, in good fortune as in bad, you find him as you have known 
him, as you have loved him, as you have made him. 

Such fidelity to the cause of Liberty and to America was bound 
to receive its reward. America was generous of it. When, in 1824, 
he came to pay you a visit and to say farewell, Washington and his 



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companions in arms were no longer there to welcome him ; but he saw 
rise from the new generation, like a beneficent harvest, that immense 
gratitude which was the pride of his old age and one of the joys of 
France. 

It was reserved to our generation, however, to witness more than 
he could have foreseen, more than would have surpassed his most 
ambitious dream ; The United States sending millions of men to fight, 
on the soil of France, this war of all wars, and help humanity to win 
its suit. 

The Honorable Secretary of the Navy has most eloquently recalled 
the historical words of noble General John Pershing when he was led 
to the family cemetery where the friend of America reposes. No 
Frenchman will ever forget them. But allow me to tell you some- 
thing more. At the time of the first Battle of the Marne — four years 
ago today — the enemy penetrated to the very hedge of Lafayette's 
property, Lagrange. At the second Battle of the Marne, they did 
not succeed in advancing so far; your own soldiers were there pro- 
tecting the approach. 

Among those heroes of Chateau Thierry and of Fismes, among 
those who combat on our fields, among those who soar in our skies, 
may there be found many who have the soul of Lafayette; I mean to 
say who understand and love the land of France as he understood and 
loved America. That is the wish that I express today. Never have 
two countries been more intimately united than ours. If there is no 
written pact between us, there is a great act; there is a great fact. 
Your men are living at our firesides, and defending them. Your dead 
repose in our meadows, under the shadow of those thousands — those 
hundreds of thousands — of little white crosses, which will signify to 
future generations the meaning of their native land, and the price of 
Liberty. May the people of France and the people of America for 
ever live, according to the words of Washington, "as brothers should 
do, in harmonious friendship." May we, like our victorious soldiers, 
for ever remain united, through life and unto death, a la vie et a la 
mort! 




MARCUS BENJAMIN 



Vice President of the Eons of the Revolution in the District of 
Columbia 



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WHAT THE UNITED STATES OWES TO FRANCE 

An address by Doctor Marcus Benjamin, Chairman, Committee of 
Judges, upon presentation of the Gold Medal of the Sons of the 
Revolution to Charles Lanham, essayist, February 22, 1920. 

It is one of the objects of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution 
to inspire its members with the patriotic spirit of their forefathers, 
and surely if such be the case, it never before in the history of our 
country has been so necessary for us to renew our appreciation, respect, 
and love for that great nation on whose sacred soil our own splendid 
soldiers have fought as bravely for the right as did that little band of 
Frenchmen who came to the assistance of the American colonies in the 
struggle for freedom during the trying years of our Revolution. 

It was, therefore, when the honor of serving as the Chairman of 
the Committee on the Annual Prize Essay was conferred upon me, 
that I had no hesitation in choosing as the topic for competition: 

What the United States Owes to France. 

Moreover this subject has an important significance at this time for 
the sinister influence of the busy propagandist is ever active in his 
efforts to stir up discord between the people of the two great Repub- 
lics, both of which have done so much to gratify those longings and 
aspirations of the human heart for liberty. 

Need I remind you of those early Colonial days when the English 
for the most part settled at convenient harbors along the Atlantic 
seacoast, while the French, ambitious for greater glory, followed the 
courses of the great rivers, and penetrated far into the interior of this 
continent. Champlain as early as 1603 entered the St. Lawrence, 
and New France was the result. Later, La Salle, after exploring 
the great lakes, reached the Illinois, which he followed till it joined 
the Mississippi and then continued along the mighty father of waters 
till he reached the Gulf of Mexico in 1682, and the vast territory of 
Louisiana became the possession of France. 

The memory of these perilous and adventurous journeys is still pre- 
served to us by the names of such places as Eau Claire, Vincennes, Des 
Moines, Terre Haute, and others, whose French origin is so evident. 

It would be a pleasant task to follow in detail the splendid services 
of our allies during the War of the Revolution. 

Those who were present at the gathering in the Square facing the 
White House, around the statue of the immortal Lafayette on the 
anniversary of his birth, two years ago, will recall with more than 



134 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



ordinary pleasure the eloquent address by his distinguished descendant, 
and it would be a bold speaker indeed who would undertake to im- 
prove on what was so well said at that time. 

D'Estaing and Rochambeau bring up memories pregnant with deeds 
of valor that culminated in the surrender at Yorktown, but I dare 
not linger over them. 

Happy and successful were the efforts of Franklin and Jefferson 
during that period at the Court of France in winning for the new 
country a friendship that has continued to the days of Jusserand, and 
which, I pray God, may never cease. 

By far the greatest acquisition of territory that the United States 
ever received came from France through the so-called Louisiana Pur- 
chase which brought 1,171,931 square miles of rich farming land in 
1803 to the young Republic. In area it is more than five times as 
large as France itself and includes the greater part of the States of 
Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Ne- 
braska, Wyoming, Montana, the two Dakotas, Minnesota, and Iowa, 
a veritable empire in itself. 

Indirectly, it is true, but nevertheless most positively did the Louis- 
iana Purchase lead to the acquisition of that territory still farther 
westward, so that it is not too much to claim that France made possi- 
ble the present well rounded country that extends from the Atlantic 
to the Pacific, which we so proudly call our own. 

From then till now the relations between France and our own 
country have been most amicable save for the passing incident of the 
Maximilian sojourn in Mexico, and that, at most, was only a slight 
ripple on the surface. 

In education do we not owe something to France? Surely Thomas 
Jefferson found his model for the University of Virginia in France 
and the unique character of that institution has not been without its 
effect upon other educational institutions in the United States. 

Also in other ways, France has exerted a potent influence on edu- 
cation in this country. Our earliest mining engineers were graduates 
of the Ecole des Mines of Paris and the School of Mines of Columbia 
University, the first of its kind in this country, was patterned after 
its French prototype. 

Even today to be a successful architect a course at the Beaux Arts 
is considered highly desirable. Our most distinguished painters and 
sculptors have studied in the ateliers in Paris and the measure of their 
eminence is gauged by the recognition that their works receive in the 
annual Salons. 



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And I would remind you that Henry Adams in his charming 
"Education" writes: "The world contains no other spot than Paris 
where education can be pursued from every side." 

I should fancy that the great success achieved in preventive medi- 
cine by our American physicians could easily be traced to the epoch- 
making discoveries of Louis Pasteur, and if this be accepted, then 
from France came the inspiration that led to those studies that have 
for all time driven away the scourge of yellow fever and similar dis- 
eases from our shores. 

But let us pass to other things, things of beauty. Do you realize 
that our beautiful Washington was the inspiration of a Frenchman? 
Those of us who have eyes may look and see, and those who care to 
learn more about the eminent engineer may read the equally inspired 
words of his Excellency, the French Ambassador, who told the story 
of L'Enfant so well, a few years ago, beneath the dome of yonder 
Capitol on that Spring morning before we carried him to his last 
resting place across the river in historic Arlington. 

Is it too commonplace to call attention to the fact that all that is 
dainty and pretty in the attire of the fair sex comes from Paris, and a 
gown from Worth or Paquin may be a chef d'oeuvre as truly as a 
figure by Barye or a romance by Guy de Maupassant. 

There is a story somewhere of Madame de Stael who, exiled from 
Paris by Napoleon, found herself comfortably located in Geneva, but 
dissatisfied with her environment, she is said to have even longed for 
the odors of the Rue du Bac. The odors as well as the perfumes of 
that lovely city on the Seine have their fascinations, and was it not 
Miss Flora McFlimsey who bewailed the fact that her "sad feet die 
to press the asphalt of the Boulevards?" 

And lastly, O France! my country owes you an eternal debt of 
gratitude for your unfailing hope, your splendid courage, and your 
irresistible strength, qualities of life which if incorporated into the 
character of the people of the United States would make us greater 
than ever before; for then would vanish all war, and peace and pros- 
perity would reign supreme from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 

Vive La France! 




HEAD OF MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE. AFTER ENGRAVING 

BY LAVACHER, USED ON PROGRAMS OF 
CELEBRATION OF LAFAYETTE DAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1918 



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ROLL OF HONOR 

OF THE MEMBERS OF THE 

SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

IN THE 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

WHO 

IN THE SPIRIT OF SELF SACRIFICE 
ENROLLED THEMSELVES 

IN THE 

SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY 

IN THE 

WORLD WAR OF 1914-1918 



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139 



He puts not off the citizen when he enters the Camp, but it is 
because he is a citizen and would wish to continue so, that he makes 
himself for a while a soldier. — Sir William Blackstone. 




Henry Turman Allen: Colonel, U. S. Army; Brigadier- 
General, May 15, 1917; Major General, August 5, 1917. At Fort 
Bliss, Texas; Commanded Fort Riley, Kansas and Camp Travis, 
Texas; Commanded Ninetieth Division; Commanded Eighth Army 
Corps, American Expeditionary Forces, France; Commanded 
American Expeditionary Forces, France; Commanded Seventh 
Artillery Corps in Germany; Commanded American Forces in 
Germany; Participated in operations as follows: Villersen- 
Haye Sector, St. Mihiel Offensive, Puveralle Sector, Meuse- 
Argonne Offensive. Awarded Distinguished Service Medal for ex- 
ceptional meritorious and distinguished service in the St. Mihiel 
salient and in the Argonne-Meuse Offensive. Foreign Decorations: 
Croix de Guerre with palm, Commander Legion of Honor, Com- 
mander Order of Leopold, Order of Prince Danilo First (Mon- 
tenegro) Medal La Solidari Urid (Panama). 

Edwin Burr Babbitt: Colonel, Ordnance Department, U. S. 
Army; Brigadier-General, Ordnance Department, August 5, 1917; 
Brigadier-General, February 12, 1918. Commanded Fourth Field 



140 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



Artillery Brigade; participated in following major operations: Aisne- 
Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, Array of Occupation. Awarded 
Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious and con- 
spicuous service participating with marked distinction in the actions of 
the Vesle River, in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives. 

George Livingston Bayard: Commander (Chaplain's Corps), 
U. S. Navy; Captain (Chaplain's Corps), July 1, 1918. Washington, 
D. C. ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Fifth Regiment, U. 
S. Marines, American Expeditionary Forces, France; Naval Train- 
ing Station, San Francisco, California. 

Laurence Vincent Benet: Member Committee to aid in repa- 
triating American refugees; Chairman Executive Committee of the 
American Ambulance ; Organized Transportation Section of American 
Ambulance of which was commandant with relative rank of Major ; 
Member Committee of American Relief Clearing House; Vice-Presi- 
dent of Union des Colonies Etrangeres; Vice-Chairman Advisory 
Board of the General Purchasing Board of the American Expedition- 
ary Forces ; Served in the Field in connection with the Ambulance Ser- 
vice on various occasions, notably at the first battle of the Marne. 
Awarded Medal of Honor, First Class, by Sanitary Service of the 
French War Department for distinguished services in Hospital and 
Ambulance Work; Decorated Commander of the Legion of Honor 
for distinguished services from the outbreak of the war. 

Joel Thompson Boone: Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, 
U. S. Navy. U. S. S. Wyoming, Vice-Admiral's Flagship, Atlantic 
Fleet; Battalion Surgeon, First Battalion, Sixth Regiment Marines; 
Assistant to Regimental Surgeon, Sixth Regiment Marines; Brigade 
Litter Bearer Officer, Fourth Brigade Marines; Regimental Surgeon, 
Sixth Regiment Marines; Assistant Division Surgeon, Second Division, 
American Expeditionary Forces; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 
Navy Department, Washington, D. C. Arrived in France, October, 
1917; attended course of instruction First Corps Schools, at Gondre- 
court, France, and Army Sanitary School, Langres, France; partici- 
pated in Defensive trench sector south of Verdun, Aisne-Marne Defen- 
sive, Aisne-Marne Offensive, the St. Mihiel Offensive, the Meuse- 
Argonne (Champagne-Mont Blanc) ; and the Meuse-Argonne Offen- 
sive ; marched to the Rhine with Army of Occupation. Awarded the 
Congressional Medal of Honor (U. S. Navy), the Distinguished Ser- 
vice Cross (U. S. Army), the Croix de Guerre (twice, each time with 
palm), Distinguished Service Citation by General Pershing, Distin- 
guished Service Citation by General Lejeune; Recommended three 
times for Distinguished Service Cross (U. S. Army) ; Recommended 
for Distinguished Service Medal (U. S. Army) ; Recommended for 
Congressional Medal of Honor (U. S. Army). Wounded at Belleau 
Woods and at Blanc-Mont, Champagne Sector. 



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Merritt Daniel Booth : Warrant Gunner, His Majesty's 
Navy. Enlisted in Canadian forces, Toronto, Canada, November 
9, 1917; served overseas; served aboard His Majesty's ship, Niobe; 
His Majesty's ship, Lansdowne; His Majesty's ship, Calgarian, and 
His Majesty's ship, Queen Elizabeth at Constantinople, Turkey, 
Port Said, Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar; torpedoed in battle of Jut- 
land and wounded during the Zeebrugge raid. Awarded the Queen's 
Good Conduct Medal from London, England, and the King George 
Gold Badge for services rendered King and British Empire as an 
American Volunteer from Ottawa, Canada. 

Granville Carter Bradford: Enlisted November 24, 1917, 
Company A, Fortieth Engineers, U. S. Army ; 302d Motor Car 
Company, Motor Transport Corps, American Expeditionary Forces ; 
Gassed at Verdun Sector; Honorably discharged May 20, 1919. 

John Fulton Carmody: Sergeant, Coast Artillery, U. S. Army. 
Enlisted June 12, 1917; Fort Washington, Maryland; Camp Stuart, 
Virginia; Participated in following major offensives: St. Mihiel, 
Meuse-Argonne ; Gassed in the Argonne-Meuse Offensive ; Honor- 
ably discharged February 21, 1919. 

George Frederick Chapline: Ensign, U. S. Navy; promoted 
Lieutenant (Junior Grade), February 1, 1918; promoted Lieutenant, 
June 3, 1918. Served on the U. S. S. Arizona, with Battleship 
Division Number Six, in the War Zone. 

Vance Duncan Chapline: Lieutenant (Junior Grade), U. S. 
Navy; promoted June 5, 1917 to Lieutenant; promoted July 1, 1918 
to Lieutenant Commander. Office of Judge Advocate General, Navy 
Department, Washington, D. C. ; Queenstown, Ireland, with destroy- 
er force, assigned to the Burrows; Commanded U. S. S. Harvard, 
Fairfax, Reid; Naval Headquarters, Brest, France; Aide on Staff 
of Commander of Squadron Five; Patrol Force, Atlantic Fleet, U. 
S. S. Carola Flagship. 

Murray Addison Cobb : Captain, U. S. Army. Troop C, District 
of Columbia Cavalry, December 15, 1917, Fort Myer, Va.; Fifty- 
Fourth Field Artillery, Twenty-Ninth Division; Aide-de-Camp to 
Major General Charles G. Morton, Commanding Twenty-Ninth 
Division, American Expeditionary Forces, France. Awarded Croix 
de Guerre and one citation. 

Harry Dunnell Copenhaver: Enlisted September 29, 1917, 
U. S. Army (Air Service), 312th Machine Gun Battalion, 154th 
Aero Squadron ; 200th Aero Squadron ; 436th Aero Squadron, Ameri- 
can Expeditionary Forces, France; Detached duty in Paris, France. 
Honorably discharged February 1, 1919. 



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Charles Leonard Frailey: Major, Judge Advocate General, 
U. S. Army, February 27, 1918; Lieutenant Colonel, April 22, 1919. 
Judge Advocate General's Office, War Department, Washington, 
D. C. ; Assistant Judge Advocate, Fourth Division, N. C. ; Camp 
Mills, N. Y. ; Duty with Fourth Division, American Expeditionary 
Forces, France; Chateau Thierry (Defensive) Sector, Aisne-Marne 
Offensive ; Judge Advocate General's Office, War Department, 
Washington, D. C. 

Edward Alonzo Greene: Captain, U. S. Marine Corps; 
Major, May 31, 1917; Lieutenant Colonel, October 31, 1918. 
Expeditionary duty near Guantanamo, Cuba; Marine Barracks, 
Quantico, Virginia; Commanded Base Detachment, Fifth Regi- 
ment Marines; Commanded First Battalion, Fifth Regiment 
Marines in France, in trenches, Toulon-Troyon Sector; Commanded 
Base Port Rochefort, Service of Supply; Commanded First Regiment 
Marines, Cuba ; with Fixed Defense Force, Marine Barracks, Navy 
Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Second Provisional Brigade, Ma- 
rine Corps, San Domingo, D. R. 

William Carvel Hall: Commissioned Second Lieutenant, July 
15, 1918, after eight months enlisted service; promoted First Lieuten- 
ant, August 16, 1918. Served at Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Nor- 
folk, Virginia, to October 10, 1918, when assigned to sea duty with 
Marine Detachment, U. S. S. New York. In war zone as a unit of 
the British Grand Fleet. 

Frederic Louis Huidekoper: Commissioned Major (Adjutant 
General's Department), U. S. Army, May 16, 1917; Lieuten- 
ant Colonel, September 25, 1918. Assistant Department Adju- 
tant, Southeastern Department, Charleston, S. C. ; Division Adju- 
tant, Thirty-third Division, Camp Logan, Texas; and with 
American Expeditionary Forces, France; Army General Staff 
College, Langres, France; participated in the following major opera- 
tions: With the British Fourth Army and in Argonne-Meuse Offen- 
sive. Cited in Division Orders for gallantry in action by General 
Pershing "for exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous service as 
Division Adjutant, Thirty-third Division, American Expeditionary 
Forces, France." Recommended for Distinguished Service Medal, 
Croix de Guerre, and Legion of Honor; Honorably discharged April 
1, 1919. 

Marcus Alexander Jordan: (Deceased), Commissioned Sec- 
ond Lieutenant, U. S. Marine Corps, April 21, 1917. Marine Bar- 
racks, Quantico, Va. ; Expeditionary duty in France ; Detached to 
Foggia, Italy, for training as Naval Aviator; killed in aeroplane 
accident at Foggia, Italy, March 27, 1918. 



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Harry Randolph Lay: Major, U. S. Marine Corps, Lieu- 
tenant Colonel, July 1, 1918. Division Marine Officer, Fourth 
Division, Atlantic Fleet, U. S. S. Minnesota, Fourth Brigade 
Marines, Second Division; Adjutant, Fifth Regiment of Marines; 
Adjutant, Fourth Brigade of Marines; Division Inspector, 
Second Division, American Expeditionary Forces ; Headquarters 
Marino Corps, Washington, D. C. Participated in the Aisne-Marne 
Defensive; Served with the French Army in the Champagne, (Blanc- 
Mont) ; participated in the St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offen- 
sives. Awarfded citation by General Pershing for meritorious and 
conspicuous service ; recommended for Distinguished Service Medal ; 
awarded the Navy Cross by the Secretary of the Navy; Awarded 
Croix de Guerre (Corps Citation) and Croix de Guerre with palm 
for gallantry in action at Blanc-Mont, Champagne, and the Bois-de- 
Belleau ; Recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross. 

Homer Winthrop Lockwood: Enlisted May 15, 1917, Ambu- 
lance Service, U. S. Army ; Active duty with French Army ; Prisoner 
of war after Montdidier-Noyon defensive, June 8-9, 1918, until 
signing of Armistice. Honorably discharged June 12, 1919. 

George Ralph Marvell: Captain, U. S. Navy. Director 
of Naval Districts, Office of Chief of Naval Operations, Wash- 
ington, D. C, Navy Department; Commanded U. S. S. 
Louisiana; Temporary duty with Cruiser and Transport Forces; in 
two engagements with submarines. 

William Mitchell: Major, Signal Corps, U. S. Army; 
Lieutenant Colonel, May 15, 1917; Colonel, August 5, 1917; 
Brigadier-General (Air Service), October 1, 1918. Chief of 
Air Service, First Army, American Expeditionary Forces; Director 
U. S. Army Air Service, Washington, D. C. First American officer 
under German fire in Europe ; first American flying officer to cross 
lines in European War, on April 22, 1917; Commanded the Air 
Service of the First Army Corps, the Brigade Air Service, the Air 
Service of the First Army, the Air Service of the Group of Armies, 
and at the time of the Armistice, took the Aviation of the Army of 
Occupation into Germany. Participated in the following major 
operations. American'. The Somme Defensive, the Aisne-Marne 
Defensive, the St. Mihiel Offensive, the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. 
British: Ypres, May, 1917, Ballecourt. French: Mont Sans Nom, 
Mont Counillet, Champagne Offensive, April, 1917, Bois de la 
Grille, April, 1917, Verdun, August, 1917, Malmaison, October, 
1917. Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished 
Service Medal, Commander of the Legion of Honor. French Croix 
de Guerre with five palms, the British Order of St. Michael and St. 
George. 



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Harry Thornton Moore: Captain, Quartermaster Corps, U. 
S. Army, December 15, 1916; Major, September 3, 1918. Assistant 
to Depot Quartermaster (as Finance and Transportation Offi- 
cer), General Supply Depot, Los Angeles, California; American 
Expeditionary Forces, as Disbursing Quartermaster, Fourth Army 
Corps (France and Luxemburg) ; Eighth Army Corps (France) ; 
Third Army Corps (Germany) ; Participated in Meuse-Argonne 
Offensive and Second Army Defensive; Assistant Zone Transporta- 
tion Officer, Jeffersonville, Indiana. 

Newbold Noyes: Commissioned First Lieutenant, U. S. Army, 
November, 1917. Served in France on Staff of Major General 
Adelbert Cronkhite, Commanding Eighth Division ; in active opera- 
tions on the British front. Honorably discharged, March, 1919. 

Worden Whitman Parris: Commissioned First Lieutenant, 
Cavalry, U. S. Army, August 15, 1917; Captain, August, 1918; 
Major, May, 1919. Fort Myer, Va. ; Second Infantry Brigade, 
American Expeditionary Forces; Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier-General 
Beaumont B. Buck; Assistant to Assistant Chief of Staff, Eighty- 
eighth Division, American Expeditionary Forces ; Participated in the 
following major operations: Aisne-Marne Defensive, St. Mihiel and 
Meuse-Argonne Offensives. Awarded Distinguished Service Cross 
for: "At Berzy-le-Sec, France, July 21, 1918, while serving as an aide 
on the brigade staff, he went through machine gun fire and artillery 
bombardment with heroic fearlessness to obtain vital information from 
the front lines for the division commander." Honorably discharged 
June 6, 1919. 

Wilbur Lee Smith : Captain, Quartermaster Corps, U. S. Army, 
July 24, 1918. Commanded Unit 305, Graves Registration Service, 
Quartermaster Corps, U. S. Army; Participated in Meuse-Argonne 
Offensive; Overseas Section, Graves Registration Service, War "De- 
partment, Washington, D. C. Honorably discharged, September 
30, 1920. 

Littleton Waller Tazewell Waller, Jr.: Major, U. S. 
Marine Corps. Commanded 81st Company, First Machine Gun Bat- 
talion; Commanded Sixth Machine Gun Battalion, Second Division; 
Commanded Eighth Machine Gun Battalion, Third Division ; Divi- 
sion Machine Gun Officer, Second Division. Participated in the fol- 
lowing operations: Toulon-Troyon Sector; in action with 47th French 
Infantry at Julgonne; in action on Marne River; in action at Belleau 
Woods; in action in Aisne-Marne Offensive; Marbache Sector; St. 
Mihiel Sector; Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Participated in the march 
to the Rhine and served with Army of Occupation. Awarded Croix 
de Guerre for action in Champagne Sector; Made Chevalier of the 
Legion of Honor for action in Aisne-Marne Offensive; cited in Gen- 



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eral Orders, No. 88, Headquarters, Second Division, dated Decem- 
ber 31, 1918; received letters of commendation from Commanding 
Officer, Second Battalion, Sixth Regiment, Commanding General, 
Fourth Brigade and Commanding General, Second Division. Award- 
ed the Navy Cross by the Secretary of the Navy. 

Lee Warriner Wright: Pay Clerk, U. S. Marine Corps; 
Second Lieutenant, June 1, 1917; First Lieutenant, June 2, 
1917; Captain, June 3, 1917. Office of Assistant Paymaster, 
Marine Corps, New York, N. Y. ; Regimental Paymaster, Sixth Regi- 
ment, U. S. Marines, Fourth Brigade, Second Division, American 
Expeditionary Forces; Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, 
D. C. Participated in the Aisne Defensive, Aisne-Marne Offensive, 
Meuse-Argonne Offensive, St. Mihiel Offensive, and Verdun Defen- 
sive Sector. 



Selden Brooke Armat: Second Lieutenant, Quartermaster 
Corps, U. S. Army; Captain, Adjutant General's Department, 
U. S. Army, November 22, 1917; Major, Quartermaster Corps, 
August 13, 1918. On duty with American Expeditionary Forces 
in France ; Paris and Headquarters Advance Section, Services of 
Supply in War Risk Insurance work; at Headquarters, Services of 
Supply, in charge of distribution of funds for entire American Expe- 
ditionary Forces; Office, Director of Finance, War Department, 
Washington, D. C. 

Philip Randolph Baker: Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy. 
Attached to and served on board U. S. S. Vermont during period, 
April 6, 1917 to August 29, 1918, as watch officer and assistant fire- 
control officer; on board Receiving Ship at New York, until Novem- 
ber 1, 1918; Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Eads Twyman Blocker: Pay Clerk, U. S. Marine Corps. Enlist- 
ed July 20, 1916, appointed Pay Clerk, February 3, 1919; Domini- 
can Republic ; American Expeditionary Forces, France ; Headquar- 
ters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ; Legation Guard, Managua, 
Nicaragua. 

Lucius Allyn Bostwick: Captain, U. S. Navy; Commanded 
U. S. S. South Dakota; Commanded U. S. S. New Mexico, general 
cruising escorting troop-ship convoys, with cruiser and transport force, 
Atlantic fleet; Bureau Naval Operations, Navy Department, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Mervyn Chandos Buckey: Major, U. S. Army; Lieuten- 
ant Colonel (Coast Artillery Corps), May 15, 1917; Colonel (Field 
Artillery), August 5, 1917; Colonel (Coast Artillery Corps), 



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July 1, 1920. Army War College, Washington, D. C. ; Mili- 
tary Attache, U. S. Embassy, Rome, Italy; Office Chief of 
Staff, War Department, Washington, D. C. ; Awarded Distinguish- 
ed Service Medal while serving as military attache, Rome, Italy. 
Foreign decorations: Italian War Cross, War Cross of Czecho-Slo- 
vakia, Silver Medal of Valor, Montenegro, Commander, Order of 
Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Commander, Order of the Crown of 
Italy, Commander, Order of Danilo First, Commander, Order of La 
Solidaridad, Italian War Service Ribbon. 

Theodore Sullivan Cox: First Lieutenant, U. S. Army (Field 
Artillery), November 27, 1917; Captain, July 2, 1918. Fort Myer, 
Va. ; Camp Lee, Va. ; Camp Jackson, S. C. ; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; 
Camp Dodge, Iowa; 314th Field Artillery, Battery A, Eightieth 
Division, Camp Lee, Va. ; 126th Field Artillery; 125th Field Artil- 
lery; Eighth Army Corps, American Expeditionary Forces, France. 
Honorably discharged, January 24, 1919. 

John Fuller Davis: First Lieutenant (Cavalry), U. S. Army; 
Captain, July 25, 1917; Major, July 30, 1918. Troops D and K, 
Third Cavalry; Commanded Third Cavalry; Special duty, Fort Sam 
Houston, Texas ; American Expeditionary Forces, France ; Detached 
service, Paris and Langres, France. 

Edward Norval Fortson : Enlisted in Signal Reserve Corps, Air 
Service, U. S. Army, July 18, 1917; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 
May 18, 1918; First Lieutenant, May 18, 1918. School of Military 
Aeronautics, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. ; Italian School 
of Aviation, Foggia, Italy; Italian Air Force (Breveted "Pilote Avi- 
atori" in Italian Army) ; Adjutant, 102d Aero Squadron; 36th Aero 
Squadron; Post Adjutant, Cazaux, France; Officer in charge of en- 
listed division at Tours, France. Honorably discharged June 27, 1919. 

Charles Sanderson Hill: Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Marine 
Corps; Colonel, July 1, 1918. Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. ; Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va. ; Southern Recruiting 
Division, New Orleans, Louisiana; on temporary foreign shore ser- 
vice with American Expeditionary Forces for purpose of obtaining 
information concerning the use of the eight-inch howitzer. 

Gouverneur Hoes : Lieutenant (Air Service), U. S. Army. 
Commissioned from Fort Myer Training Camp, Fort Myer, Va., 
November 8, 1917; Aeronautical General Concentration Camp and 
Supply Depot, Garden City, L. I., N. Y. ; in France as non-flying 
officer under Colonel Thomas de W. Milling; 26th Aero Squadron; 
Tenth Aero Squadron; Air Service Headquarters, American Expedi- 
tionary Forces, Paris, France. Honorably discharged, August 2, 1919. 



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Thomas Hyde, IV: Second Lieutenant, Infantry, November 27, 
1917; First Lieutenant, August 24, 1918. 155th Depot Brigade; 
Motor Transport Corps, American Expeditionary Forces, France; 
Honorably discharged April 22, 1919. 

Theodore Carlton Johnson: Second Lieutenant, U. S. Marine 
Corps, August 27, 1917; First Lieutenant, August 28, 1917; Captain, 
July 1, 1918. Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va. ; Fourth Brigade, 
Marine Corps, American Expeditionary Forces, France, as Assistant 
Paymaster; Commended by the Major General Commandant for 
services rendered in the performance of this duty; Honorably dis- 
charged, September 11, 1919. 

Charles Laurie McCawley: Brigadier-General, U. S. Marine 
Corps, the Quartermaster of the Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. 
Temporary duty in France during the war. Awarded Distinguished 
Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous service in 
the organization and administration of the Quartermaster's Depart- 
ment, U. S. Marine Corps. 

Ralph Walker McDowell: Lieutenant, Medical Corps, U. S. 
Navy; Lieutenant Commander, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, August 
31, 1917. U. S. S. Fulton, Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C. ; 
Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va. ; Eleventh Regiment, U. S. Marine 
Corps, American Expeditionary Forces, France ; U. S. Naval Hospital, 
San Diego, California. Awarded the Order of Chevalier in the Legion 
of Honor, by France, in recognition of his services during the in- 
fluenza and meningitis epidemics while on duty in France ; Recom- 
mended for Distinguished Service Medal and Navy Cross. 

Charles Clagett Marbury: Captain (Medical Corps), U. S. 
Army, April 14, 1917; Promoted to Major, November, 1917; Lieu- 
tenant Colonel, November, 1918. Served at Fort Oglethorpe, 
Georgia; Camp Hill, Virginia; Served in France at Brest. Honor- 
ably discharged, February 28, 1919. 

Gerald De Courcy May: First Lieutenant, Ordnance Depart- 
ment, U. S. Army, September 10, 1917. Kenosha, Wisconsin (Nash 
Motors Company); Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois; 
Peoria, Illinois; Camp MacArthur, Texas; Commanded 107th 
Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop; in France with Thirty-second Divi- 
sion; Inspector of Artillery, First Army, American Expeditionary 
Forces; Honorably discharged, March 4, 1919. 

Henry Coleman May: Second Lieutenant, Intelligence Corps, 
U. S. Army, November 17, 1917. General Headquarters, Line of 
Communication, American Expeditionary Forces, France; Office of 
Chief of Utilities, Transportation Department, Service of Supplies, 
American Expeditionary Forces; Camp Lee, Va. ; Honorably dis- 
charged, June 21, 1919. 



148 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

Morris Addison Parris: Enlisted November 18, 1917, Medical 
Corps, U. S. Army; Commissioned First Lieutenant, June 10, 1918. 
Medical Department at Cosne, France; Intermediate Medical Supply 
Depot, No. 3; Base Hospital No. 1; Commanded Medical Depart- 
ment Warehouses Base Storage Station, Montoir (Loire Inferieure) ; 
Honorably discharged August 7, 1919. 

Edwin Taylor Pollock: Captain, U. S. Navy. Commanded 
U. S. S. Hancock; Received possession Danish West Indies; Acting 
Governor Virgin Islands; Commanded Fourth Group, First Expedi- 
tion to France; Commanded U. S. S. George Washington, in trans- 
port service, seven round trips in transporting troops to France ; Navy 
Department, Washington, D. C. Awarded Navy Cross. 

John Boursiquot Rose: Captain, Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. 
Army; Major, June 22, 1917; Lieutenant Colonel, January 8, 1918; 
Colonel, October 21, 1918. Office of Chief of Ordnance, War De- 
partment, Washington, D. C. ; Engineering Division, Manufacturing 
Division, Ordnance Department, Washington, D. C. ; Under Chief 
Ordnance Officer, American Expeditionary Forces, France. 

Herman Osman Stickney: Captain, U. S. Navy; Rear Admiral, 
December 22, 1919. Commanded U. S. S. Vermont; In Navy De- 
partment, Washington, D. C. ; Member of Board of Inspection and 
Survey ; Senior Member Board of Inspection of Vessels on the Pacific 
Coast, San Francisco, California. Awarded Navy Cross. 

Jay Hale Sypher: Commander, U. S. Navy. Office of 
Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department, Washington, 
D. C. ; with Commander, U. S. Naval Forces operating in European 
waters; Commanded U. S. Naval Training Station, Base Six; Naval 
Port Officer, Southampton, England. Decorated by H. R. H., The 
Prince of Wales, as Commander of Order of the British Empire. 

Frank Stone Taintor: Major, Engineers, U. S. Army, Septem- 
ber 14, 1917; Promoted Lieutenant Colonel, August 1, 1919. Special 
duty details, United States, France and England ; Staff of Command- 
ing Officer, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland. Honorably dis- 
charged, September 10, 1919. 

Louis Joseph Van Schaick: Captain, Infantry, U. S. Army; 
Major, June 4, 1917; Lieutenant Colonel, August 5, 1917; Colonel, 
July 30, 1918. Commanding Officer, Company C, Thirty-fifth Infan- 
try Regiment; Instructor Non-commissioned Officers' School, Noga- 
les, Arizona; 345th Infantry Regiment, Camp Pike, Arkansas, as 
Lieutenant Colonel; Temporarily in command of regiment, Camp 
Dix, N. J. ; Commanded Twentieth Division, Camp Inspector, Camp 
Devens, Mass.; Camp Sevier, S. C. ; with American Expeditionary 
Forces, France; Adjutant General's Department, American Forces 
in France; Inspector General, American Forces in Germany. 



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Floyd Pierpont Waggaman: First Lieutenant, Ordnance De- 
partment, U. S. Army, August 14, 1917. Assistant to the Ordnance 
Officer at Port of Embarkation, Newport News, Va. ; Camp Han- 
cock, Ga. ; Advance Ordnance Depot No. 1, American Expedition- 
ary Forces in France. Honorably discharged, February 1, 1919. 

Hayward Hutchinson Webb: Second Lieutenant, Infantry, 
U. S. Army, November 27, 1917. Fort Myer, Va. ; 369th Infantry 
Regiment, American Expeditionary Forces, France. Honorably dis- 
charged, February 15, 1919. 

Walter Augustine Wells: Commissioned Major, Medical 
Corps, U. S. Army, May 17, 1917. Office of Attending Surgeon, 
Washington, D. C. ; Consultant on Medical and Surgical Staff of 
Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C. ; Base Hospital No. 64; 
Camp Sevier, S. C. ; Evacuation Hospital No. 9, Coblenz, Germany. 
Honorably discharged, May 26, 1919. 

Julian Parsons Willcox: Captain, U. S. Marine Corps; 
Major, May 22, 1917. U. S. S. New York; U. S. S. Wyoming, as 
Divisional Marine Officer, Sixth Division, Atlantic Fleet, and Aide 
on Staff of Division Commander. 

Davis Bowles Wills: Captain, U. S. Marine Corps; Major, U. 
S. Marine Corps, May 22, 1917. Office of Assistant Paymaster, 
Marine Corps, New York, N. Y. ; with Fifth Regiment, U. S. Ma- 
rines, American Expeditionary Forces, as Regimental Paymaster; 
Assistant Adjutant of Fifth Regiment, U. S. Marines, France; Reg- 
imental Intelligence Officer; Billeting Officer; Chief Paymaster, Ma- 
rines, Paris, France ; Assistant Paymaster, U. S. Marine Corps, Atlan- 
ta, Georgia. Awarded Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally 
meritorious and distinguished service as Chief Paymaster, U. S. Ma- 
rines, France; Awarded Navy Cross. Resigned September 21, 1920. 

James Sprigg Wilson: Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, U. 
S. Army; Colonel, May 15, 1917. Fort McKinley, P. I., as Post 
Surgeon; Camp John Hay, P. I., as Department Surgeon, Philippine 
Department, Manila, P. I., as Chief Surgeon, General Headquarters, 
American Expeditionary Forces, Vladivostok, Siberia. 



Clarence Aiken Aspinwall : Secretary, Young Men's Christian 
Association Unit, American Expeditionary Forces, France; Secretary, 
Red Cross Finance Committee; Chairman, Committee Liberty Loan 
Drive; Advisory Committee, Fuel Administrator. 

Hampson Gary: Diplomatic Agent and Consul General, Cairo, 
Egypt; U. S. Minister to Switzerland. 



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Henry Abert Johnson: American Consul, Ghent, Belgium; 
Brussels, Belgium; Switzerland; Dundee, Scotland. While at Ghent 
had charge of American and British interests. 

Royall Ogden Kloeber: Assistant Director of Finance, U. S. 
Army ; Member of the initial force which established in Paris, France, 
the office of the Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury, 1917-1918; 
On duty War Department since 1918. Awarded Distinguished Ser- 
vice Medal, citation reading: "For exceptionally meritorious and dis- 
tinguished service as Assistant Director of Finance. In this capacity 
he rendered most valuable assistance in the solution of the great 
financial problems which arose due to the war." 

John Van Schaick, Jr.: American Red Cross; Lieutenant Col- 
onel (Assimilated), American Expeditionary Forces, France; Repre- 
sentative for Holland, Rockefeller Foundation, War Relief Commis- 
sion, in Holland, Germany, and occupied Belgium, 1915; with the 
American Red Cross Commission for France, 1917; Deputy Com- 
missioner and Commissioner American Red Cross, for Belgium, 1917- 
1919 at Belgian front. Decorated by King Albert of Belgium, person- 
ally, with Order of Leopold, military, with palm and rank of 
"officier." 

William Walker Smith : Chief, European Division, Depart- 
ment of State; Secretary American Legation, Copenhagen, Denmark; 
Secretary American Legation, Lima, Peru. 



Ola Walter Bell: Major, U. S. Army; Lieutenant Colonel, 
August 5, 1917; Colonel, November 5, 1917. Professor of Military 
Science and Tactics, Fort Sheridan, 111. ; Detailed Adjutant General's 
Department, Newport News, Va. 

Robert Root Bennett: Captain, Signal Corps, August 5, 1917. 
Military Intelligence Section, General Staff, War Department, Wash- 
ington, D. C. Honorably discharged January 17, 1919. 

Edward Maurice Blackwell: Lieutenant Commander, Medi- 
cal Corps, U. S. Navy; Commander, October 15, 1917. Executive 
Officer, U. S. S. Solace (Hospital Ship); Commander U. S. S. 
Solace; Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C, to sick leave; Bureau 
of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. 

George Beale Bloomer: Ensign Pay Corps, U. S. N., R. F., 
May 31, 1917; Lieutenant (Junior Grade), October 17, 1917; 
Lieutenant, February 1, 1918. Navy Yard, Washington, D. C, U. 
S. S. Amerika; Assistant to Fuel Officer, Fourth Naval District, 
Philadelphia, Pa. ; Assistant to Aide for Supply, Philadelphia, Pa. ; 
Relieved from active duty June 21, 1919. 



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Stanhope English Blunt: Colonel, U. S. Army (Retired). 
Active duty April 7, 1917; Office Chief of Ordnance, Washington, 
D. C. ; Representative Ordnance Department, General Munitions 
Board of Counsel of National Defense ; Supervisor of Manufacturing 
Arsenals; Relieved from active duty August 4, 1918. 

Gardner Lloyd Booth e, II : Enlisted Coast Artillery Corps, U. 
S. Army, August 9, 1918; Promoted Second Lieutenant, Coast Artil- 
lery Reserve Corps, November 30, 1918; to inactive duty December 
1, 1918. 

Henry Buchanan Byrd, Jr.: Ensign, U. S. Navy. Enlisted 
November 15, 1917, United States Navy; Commissioned Ensign 
November 30, 1918; Fourth Naval District, Philadelphia, Pa.; to 
inactive duty, August 9, 1919. 

John Doyle Carmody: Major, Ordnance Department, U. S. 
Army; Lieutenant Colonel (Air Service), July 12, 1918. Office of 
Chief of Ordnance, Washington, D. C. ; General Supply Depot and 
Concentration Camp, Morrison, Va. ; Governors' Island, N. Y. 
Office of Director of Military Aeronautics, Washington, D. C. 
Army Balloon School, Fort Omaha, Nebraska ; Army Balloon School 
Arcadia, California; Army Balloon School, Camp John Wise, Texas 
Office Director, Air Service, War Department, Washington, D. C. 
Commissioned regular service, Major, Adjutant General's Depart- 
ment, U. S. Army. 

Robert Hollister Chapman: (Deceased), Major, Engineer 
Corps, U. S. Army, March 21, 1917. Assistant to Department 
Engineer, Eastern Department, at Wakefield, Mass. ; Camp Hum- 
phreys, Va. Honorably discharged December 6, 1918. 

Alan Ogilvie Clephane: (Deceased), Lieutenant (Junior 
Grade), U. S. Navy, April 7, 1917. Bureau of Navigation, 
Navy Department, Washington, D. C. ; Federal Rendezvous, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. ; Commanded U. S. S. Arcturus; Commanded U. S. S. 
Whirlwind; Bureau of Naval Operations, Navy Department, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Lewis Painter Clephane: Lieutenant, U. S. Navy, February 24, 
1917; Lieutenant Commander June 25, 1917. Fifth Naval 
District, Norfolk, Va. ; U. S. S. Fish Hazuk; Navy Headquarters, 
Baltimore, Md. ; Senior Member, Joint Army and Navy Board of 
Survey; Commanded Section One, Fifth Naval District, Baltimore, 
Md. ; Supervisor Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Baltimore, 
Md. ; training Division, Bureau of Navigation, Washington, D. C. 

Walter Collins Clephane: Major (Judge Advocate Gen- 
eral's Department), U. S. Army, April 7, 1917; Lieutenant Colonel, 



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April 22, 1919. Member Board of Reviews, Military Justice Divi- 
sion; Office of Judge Advocate General, War Department, Wash- 
ington, D. C. Honorably discharged June 30, 1920. 

Richard Graham Davenport: Commodore, U. S. Navy, 
(Retired). To active duty January 26, 1918, Navy Yard, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. ; Senior Member of the Permanent Board of Investigations ; 
President numerous Courts of Inquiry ; relieved from active duty 
May 20, 1919. 

Edwin Willard Deming: Captain, June 28, 1918. Small Arms 
Firing School, Camp Perry, Ohio, as head of Camouflage; Camp 
Benning, Ga., in charge of Camouflage and special target work; in 
charge of small bore sniping and camouflage, National Matches at 
Caldwell, N. J. ; Camp Benning, Columbus, Georgia, as teacher of 
camouflage. Honorably discharged. 

Seely Dunn: Commissioned Captain, Quartermasters Corps, U. 
S. Army, April 27, 1917, and served until October 8, 1919. Was in 
charge of important transportation activities on Mexican border and 
at New York. Honorably discharged October 8, 1919. 

Clinton Goodloe Edgar: Captain, Quartermaster Reserve 
Corps, April, 1919; Lieutenant Colonel, August, 1917; Colonel, De- 
cember, 19917; Colonel, Supply Division, Signal Corps, U. S. Army. 
Office of Chief Signal Officer, Washington, D. C, Mineola, L. I., 
Hampton, Va., Evansville, Indiana; Office Director of Military 
Aeronautics, Washington, D. C. Commended and recommended for 
Distinguished Service Medal by Chief Signal Officer and Director of 
Military Aeronautics. Honorably discharged February 8, 1919. 

Lay Hampton Everhart: Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy, 
(Retired). To active duty, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., March 
26, 1917; relieved and to retired list June 18, 1918. 

William Curry Harllee: Major, U. S. Marine Corps, 
April 7, 1917; Lieutenant Colonel, July 1, 1918. Office of 
Chief of Gunnery Exercises and Engineering, Navy Department, 
Washington, D. C. ; Officer in Charge, Small Arms Target Practice 
and as Executive Officer of National Rifle Matches, Quantico, Va. 
Commended by the Major General Commandant for services ren- 
dered in the performance of his duties. 

John Van Rensselaer Hoff: (Deceased); Colonel, Medical 
Corps, U. S. Army (Retired). To actice duty April 7, 1917; Office 
of Surgeon General, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. ; relieved 
from active duty August 2, 1918. 

Richmond Cranston Holcomb: Lieutenant Commander, Medi- 
cal Corps), U. S. Navy; promoted July 1, 1917 to Commander 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 153 

(Medical Corps), U. S. Navy. Assistant to Chief of Bureau of Medi- 
cine and Surgery; U. S. S. Havana; Medical Aide to Commandant, 
Third Naval District; Command of Naval Hospital, League Island, 
Pa., and additional duty in connection with construction of Hospital 
Ship No. 1 ; Additional duty as Inspector, representing the Bureau of 
Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, in connection with con- 
struction of Hospital Unit No. 1. 

Nevil Monroe Hopkins: Major, (Ordnance Department), U. 
S. Army, November 21, 1917. Office of Chief of Ordnance, Nitrate 
Division, War Department, Washington, D. C. Honorably dis- 
charged March 10, 1919. 

Lyman Walter Vere Kennon: (Deceased) ; Colonel, U. S. 
Army, April 7, 1917; Brigadier-General, August 5, 1917. Command- 
ed Ninetieth Division of Infantry; 161st Depot Brigade, Camp 
Greene, N. C; Eighty-sixth Division, Camp Grant, 111.; 171st In- 
fantry, Brigade, Camp Grant, 111. ; Commanded Camp Greene, N. C. 

Jacob Miller Kenyon: First Lieutenant, District of Columbia 
National Guard, Captain Military Intelligence Division, General 
Staff, U. S. Army, September 3, 1918. Honorably discharged March 
8, 1919. Captain Reserve Corps, U. S. Army (Quartermaster Sec- 
tion), January 24, 1920; Major, April 19, 1920. Assisted Major 
General Crowder in the examination of appeals from drafted men 
from District Boards. Honorably discharged March 8, 1919. 

Alexander Brown Legare: Lieutenant Commander, U. S. 
Navy. Office of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department, Washington, 
D. C. Honorably discharged November 26, 1919. 

John Clifton Little: Enlisted in U. S. Naval Reserve Force, 
December 15, 1917; Commissioned Ensign, U. S. N. R. F., May 29, 
1918; Lieutenant (Junior Grade), October 1, 1918. U. S. Naval Air 
Station, Pensacola, Fla. ; Aviation Regiment, Naval Operating Base, 
Hampton Roads, Va. ; U. S. Naval Air Station, Rockaway Beach, L. 
I.,; U. S. Naval Air Station, Key West, Fla.; Operation and Main- 
tenance (Aviation) ; Bureau of Steam Engineering, Navy Depart- 
ment, Washington, D. C. 

Chester Walker Lockwood: Enlisted April 7, 1917, in U. S. 
Navy; Commissioned Ensign January 27, 1918 (U. S. Navy 
Force). Third Naval District, New York, N. Y. ; Relieved from 
active duty March 8, 1919. 

John Alexander Lockwood: Colonel U. S. A. (Retired). As- 
signed active duty, Fort Leavenworth, Field Officer, Plattsburg 
Training Camp ; Commanding Officer Hahnemann Medical College, 
Students' Army Training Corps ; Relieved from active duty Novem- 
ber 15, 1918. 



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Samuel McGowan: Rear Admiral, Pay Corps, U. S. Navy; 
The Paymaster General, U. S. Navy and Chief of Bureau of Sup- 
plies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. Awarded 
the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious service 
in a duty of great responsibility. 

Frederick William Matteson: Captain, Quartermaster 
Corps, U. S. Army, May 2, 1917; Major, Quartermaster Corps, U. 
S. Army, August 26, 1918. Assistant Depot Quartermaster, Boston, 
Mass. ; Newport News, Va. ; Assistant to Depot Quartermaster, Port 
of Embarkation, and Assistant to Quartermaster in Charge of con- 
struction at Port of Embarkation, Newport News, Va. ; Assistant 
Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D. C. ; in charge of Transport 
and Storage Division, Office of Depot Quartermaster, Washington, 
D. C. ; Zone Executive Officer, Zone Supply Office, Washington, 
D. C. Recommended for Distinguished Service Medal for exception- 
ally meritorious and distinguished services. 

John Twiggs Myers: Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps, April 7, 
1917; Brigadier-General, July 1, 1918. Fleet Marine Officer, 
Atlantic Fleet; Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ; 
Commanded Marine Barracks, Parris Island, S. C, and Quantico, 
Va. ; Marine Barracks, Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, T. H. Recom- 
mended for the Navy Cross for distinguished service as Fleet Marine 
Officer, Atlantic Fleet. 

William Otway Owen: Colonel, Medical Corps, U. S. Army 
(Retired). To active duty May 31, 1916. Surgeon General's 
Office, War Department; Curator, Army Medical Museum. Re- 
lieved from active duty January 7, 1919. 

Armistead Peter, III : Enlisted December 14, 1917, U. S. Navy; 
Commissioned Ensign August 29, 1918. Government Radio Station, 
Navy Department, Washington, D. C. ; Radio Receiving Station, 
Navy Department, Washington, D. C. ; Radio for Air Craft Division ; 
Bureau Steam Engineering; Relieved from active service, December 
19, 1918. 

David Dixon Porter: Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps; 
Colonel, July 1, 1918. Assistant Adjutant and Inspector, Head- 
quarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. Recommended for Navy 
Cross for distinguished services in the line of his profession. 

Lester Amos Pratt: Enlisted November 10, 1917, in United 
States Army; Commissioned Second Lieutenant September 18, 1918; 
First Lieutenant October 21, 1919. El Paso, Texas, in Quartermaster 
Corps ; Motor Transport Corps, Unit No. 305, Camp Jessup, Atlanta, 
Ga. ; Office of Chief of Motor Transport Corps, Washington, D. C. 
Honorably discharged July 19, 1919. 



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Butler Delaplaine Price: (Deceased); Brigadier-General, 
U. S. Army, Retired. Medal of Honor Board, War Department, 
Washington, D. C. 

Russell Benjamin Putnam: Major, Assistant Paymaster, U. 
S. Marine Corps. Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, 
D. C. ; in Charge Office of Assistant Paymaster, Marine Corps, 
Atlanta, Ga. ; First Provisional Brigade, U. S. Marines, Port- 
au-Prince, Haiti. Recommended for the Navy Cross for distin- 
guished services in connection with the establishment and administra- 
tion of the office of the Assistant Paymaster, Marine Corps, Atlanta, 
Ga. 

Irving Wallace Rand: Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, 
U. S. Army; Colonel, May 15, 1917. Surgeon China Expedition; 
Commanded Base Hospital; Camp Travis, Texas; Detached duty at 
Washington, D. C, Markeltown, Pa. 

George Richards: Brigadier-General, The Paymaster, U. S. 
Marine Corps. Served as The Paymaster, U. S. Marine Corps, Head- 
quarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. Awarded the Distin- 
guished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous 
service in the organization and administration of his department. 

Edward Fisk Riggs: Major, District of Columbia National 
Guard (Retired). Assisted with other National Guard Officers in 
instructing recruits and drafted men for the regular service at the 
National Guard Armory, Washington, D. C. 

Horace Dodge Rouzer: Lieutenant Commander (Civil Engi- 
neer), U. S. Navy. Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, 
Washington, D. C. 

Benjamin Reeves Russell: Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps, (Re- 
tired). To active duty July 1, 1917; member of Courts-Martial 
Boards, Washington, D. C, and Quantico, Virginia. Relieved 
from active duty August 8, 1919. 

John Prentiss Sanger: Major General, U. S. Army (Retired). 
To active duty April 7, 1917; Medal of Honor Board; Relieved to 
retired list June 6, 1917. 

Guy Tyrrell Scott: Captain, U. S. Army, (Retired) April 7, 
1917; to active duty August 12, 1917; Major, October 10, 1918. 
Commanded Coast Defenses of New Bedford, Mass., and Fort Rod- 
man; Relieved from active duty December 14, 1918. 

Richard Douglas Simms: (Deceased) ; Brigadier-General Com- 
manding District of Columbia National Guard. No active Federal 
Service; Commanding District of Columbia National Guard. 



156 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



George Robbins Simpson: Major, U. S. Army. Eighth Infantry 
Company, Fifth Provisional Training Regiment, Officers Training 
Camp, Fort Myer, Va., 1917. 

Franklin Topping Steele: Captain, National Naval Volunteers, 
Marine Corps Branch, April 6, 1917; Commissioned Second Lieu- 
tenant, U. S. Marine Corps, August 6, 1917; First Lieutenant, 
August 8, 1917; Captain, July 1, 1918. Marine Barracks, Navy 
Yard, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va. ; Marine 
Corps Rifle Range, Winthrop, Md. ; Headquarters Marine Corps, 
Washington, D. C. ^ 

Pierre Christie Stevens: (Deceased); Major, U. S. Army, 
(Retired). To active duty November 20, 1917; Acting Quarter- 
master, Philadelphia, Pa., and Washington, D. C. ; relieved from 
active dtuy March 5, 1919. 

John Truesdale Stewart: Major, (Engineers), U. S. Army, 
April 18, 1917; Lieutenant Colonel, October 18, 1918. Fort Snelling, 
Minn., Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Office of Chief of Engineers, 
Equipment Section, War Department, Washington, D. C. Honor- 
ably discharged, October 13, 1919. 

Lloyd Webb Taylor: Second Lieutenant, Air Service. Aero- 
nautics, Camp Dick, Dallas, Texas; Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, 
Florida; to inactive duty as Second Lieutenant, Air Service. Hon- 
orably discharged September 23, 1919; Officers Reserve Corps Octo- 
ber 29, 1919. 

George Cyrus Thorpe: Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Marine 
Corps; Colonel, July 1, 1918. Staff Naval War College, Chief of 
Staff Second Brigade U. S. Marines; Commanding Third Regiment 
of Marines and Eastern District, Dominican Republic; received sur- 
render of Vicentico Evangelista Revolutionists in 1917 ; in field against 
Natera Insurgents; rendered valuable services in establishing peace 
and order in that country. 

Charles Trowbridge Tittmann: First Lieutenant, U. S. 
Army, October 9, 1918; Captain, April, 1919; Major, September, 
1919. Camp Upton, N. Y. ; Judge Advocate General's Department, 
Camp Humphreys, Va. ; Office Judge Advocate General, Washing- 
ton, D. C, as member of Special Clemency Board. Honorably dis- 
charged July 30, 1920. 

John Van Rensselaer: Captain, Medical Corps, U. S. Army. 
Rockefeller Institute, New York, N. Y. ; General Hospital No. 3, 
Colonia, N. J. Honorably discharged May 15, 1919. 

Alexander Mackenzie Watson: Captain U. S. Marine Corps; 
Major, May 22, 1917. U. S. S. Oklahoma; Division Marine 



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Officer, Sixth Division, Atlantic Fleet; Assistant Adjutant 
and Inspector, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. 
Commended by the Major General Commandant for excellent and 
efficient services rendered during demobilization of the Fourth and 
Fifth Brigades of Marines. 

Francis Bradford Wheaton: Major, Quartermaster Reserve 
Corps, U. S. Armv, June 6, 1917; Lieutenant Colonel, Quartermas- 
ter Corps, March 19, 1918. Office of Officer in Charge of Canton- 
ment Construction, Washington, D. C. ; Temporary duty throughout 
the United States and at Honolulu, T. H. Commissioned regular 
service, Major, Quartermaster Corps, U. S. Army. 

George Yandes Wheeler: Captain, Ordnance Department, U. 
S. Army, February 9, 1918. Office of Chief of Ordnance and with 
Administration Division, Ordnance Department, U. S. Army, Wash- 
ington, D. C. ; Department Ordnance and Armament Officer, Panama 
Canal Department, Canal Zone. Honorably discharged April 8, 1919. 

Harry Marshall Wheeler: Captain, Ordnance Department, 
U. S. Army, February 1, 1918. Office of Chief of Ordnance and with 
Administration Division, Ordnance Department, U. S. Army, Wash- 
ington, D. C. Honorably discharged, December 12, 1918. 

Dion Williams: Colonel, U. S. Marine Corps. General Board 
of Navy, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. ; Commanded 10th 
Regiment, U. S. Marines at Quantico, Va. ; Commanding Fourth 
Regiment of Marines, Santo Domingo, D. R. ; and District Com- 
mander of the Northern District of Santo Domingo. 

Leonard Wood: Major General, U. S. Army. Command- 
ed Camp Funston, Kansas; Commanded Eastern Department; 
with British Mission to the United States; Commanded 
Southeastern Department; Detached service inspecting camp sites; 
Commanded Eighty-ninth Division; Observer with British and 
French Armies in France, (wounded there) ; Commanded Western 
Department; Commanded Tenth Division; Commanded Central De- 
partment, Chicago, 111. Awarded Distinguished Service Medal for 
especially meritorious and conspicuous service as Department, Division 
and Camp Commander during the war; Decorated by Italy, as an 
Officer of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus. 

Walter Fitzhugh Worthington: Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy. 
Naval Inspector of Engineering Material, New York, N. Y., and 
New Jersey Districts; Relieved from all active duty March 8, 1919. 



Anthony Callis Addison : Bureau of Fisheries. 

James Henry Alburtis: Copy Editor, Government Printing 
Office. 



158 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

John Culver Barcalow: Liberty Loan Subscriptions. 

Richard Vermillion Barry: Navy Department. 

Marcus Benjamin: Volunteer Aid, Bureau of Naval Intel- 
ligence, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. ; Member Home De- 
fense League ; also consulted during the war as an expert on various 
technical and scientific matters. Decorated by the French Govern- 
ment with the Palmes academique with the rank of Officier de l'ln- 
struction publique. 

Robert Sidney Belknap: Liberty Loan Subscriptions. 

Adolphus Bogardus Bennett, Jr.: Medical Advisory Board, 
Number Four, District of Columbia; Navigation Inspector under 
Department of Commerce. 

Nelson Duvall Brecht: Red Cross Work. 

Barry Bulkley: Local director of the Serbian Relief Committee; 
Speaker for the Liberty Loan Drives and Red Cross. 

Francis Mason Burrows: Department of Commerce. 

Henry Buchanan Byrd, Sr. : Liberty Loan Drives. 

Edward Kernan Campbell: Chief Justice, U. S. Court of 
Claims. 

William Ridgely Chapline, Jr.: U. S. Forestry Service. 

John Whitsitt Childress: United States Government Print- 
ing Office. 

Robert Smith Chilton : United States Consul, Coburg, Canada. 

Francis Warfield Herrick Clay: (Deceased), Assistant Com- 
missioner of Patents. 

Ira Broadwell Conkling: (Deceased), Clerk, Interstate Com- 
merce Commission. 

Samuel Treadway Conkling: Bureau of War Risk Insurance. 

John Holmes Converse: Office of the Auditor for the War 
Department. 

William Van Zandt Cox: Commissioned by the President of 
the United States, a member of Local Draft Board for Division No. 
10, District of Columbia. 

Charles Francis Diggs: Member of Legal Advisory Board, 
Washington, D. C. ; Liberty Loan Drives. 

Edward W. Donn, Jr. : Designed U. S. Powder Factory and 
Naval Proving Grounds, Indian Head, Maryland; Red Cross Drives. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 159 

Irving Hall Dunlap: U. S. Fisheries Commission; Red Cross 
and Liberty Loan Subscriptions. 

Harry Lyman Dunwoody: Liberty Loan Subscriptions. 

Milton Courtwright Elliott: Counsel for Federal Reserve 
Board; Counsel for War Finance Corporation. 

Frederick Worden Montrose Graham : Liberty Loan Sub- 
scriptions. 

Clarence Henning Green: Treasury Department. 

Frank Key Green : Marshal, U. S. Supreme Court. 

Thomas Edward Green: American Red Cross; Special Speaker 
for War Department ; Membership Campaign, American Red Cross, 
Speaker's Bureau; Speaker's Bureau, Treasury Department; Chair- 
man in charge of Victory Liberty Loan. 

Frank Edward Guernsey: Chairman, Public Safety Com- 
mittee. 

Robert Newton Harper: Member Finance Committee, Ameri- 
can Red Cross; Assisted in Liberty Loan and United War Work 
Drives. 

James Malcolm Henry: Registrar during period of drafting; 
clerk to Local Examination Board No. 2. 

Samuel Herrick: Volunteer Speaker, Liberty Loan, Red Cross, 
United War Work, and other campaigns; Four Minute Man under 
Committee on Public Information; Chairman Committee on Speakers 
of Armenian Relief Campaign; Acting Chairman Committee on 
Speakers, War Savings Campaign; Member Legal Advisory Board, 
Selective Draft, District of Columbia. 

Alfred Byrne Horner: Legal Advisory Board, Warrenton, Va. 

Benjamin Grubb Humphreys: Member of Congress, Missis- 
sippi. 

Gaillard Hunt: Department of State.. 

Clair Aubrey Hunt: Bureau of Printing and Engraving. 

Richard Washburn Hynson: Liberty Loan and Red Cross 
Drives. 

Ralph Jenkins: President District of Columbia Society, Ameri- 
can Red Cross. 

Arthur Keith: U. S. Geological Survey. 

Charles Ford Langworthy: Department of Agriculture. 



160 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



Charles William Laporte: State Senator, Illinois. 

Ralph William Lee : Local Draft Board No. 9 ; Liberty Loan 
Drives; Finance Committee District Branch, American Red Cross. 

Alfred Eli Lewis: War Department. 

Charles Porterfield Light: Red Cross, Y. M. C. A.; Liberty 
Loan Subscriptions. 

Randolph Harrison McKim: (Deceased), American Red 
Cross; Navy League. 

Frank Bostwick Martin: Army Medical Museum. 

Benjamin DeMier Miller: Member Board of Contract Re- 
view, Quartermaster Corps, U. S. Army. 

Howell Morgan: United States Indian Service. 

Steuart Brown Muncaster: Member Medical Advisory Board; 
Volunteer Medical Service Corps. 

Charles Fitz Randolph Ogilby: Liberty Loan Subscriptions; 
Legal Advisory Boards; Special Work for Judge Advocate General's 
Office in passing upon Questionnaires during early part of Selective 
Draft operations. 

Brainard W Parker: Assisted in Draft, as member of Legal 
Board. 

Albion Keith P arris, Sr. : Home Defense League; Public Ser- 
vice Reserve; Liberty Loan Subscriptions. 

John VanPelt Quackenbush : Home Defense Guards, Lacka- 
wanna County, Scranton, Pa., from organization until demobilization. 

Cary Rochester Sage: U. S. Army Medical Museum. 

William Henry Saunders: Liberty Loan Drives; Volunteer 
Four Minute Speaker. 

Cephas Hempstone Sinclair: (Deceased), United States Coast 
Survey. 

Robert Preston Shealy: Legal Advisory Board, Montgomery 
County, Maryland ; War Savings Stamps Team ; Organized System 
of Voluntary Food Administration. 

Henry Harrison Sheets: Founder National Association for 
Universal Military Training, of which he is directing Secretary and 
Treasurer. 

Clinton Gold Smith : United States Forestry Service. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 161 

Hugh Maclellan Southgate: Assisted under Bureau of Steam 
Engineering, Navy Department and Emergency Fleet Corporation, 
in designing and purchase of propelling machinery for Naval War 
Vessels and the Emergency Merchant Fleet. 

Martin Robinson Speelman: Government Printing Office. 

Henry Benning Spencer: U. S. Railroad Administration. 

John Kennedy Stout: Federal Trade Commission. 

Reeves Trenchard Strickland: Bureau of Aeronautics, War 
Department; Liberty Loan Drives; Legal Advisory Board, District 
of Columbia. 

William Henry Tayloe: U. S. Railroad Administration. 

Frank Erastus Webner: American Protective League, 1917; 
Special Assistant, Finance Division, Aircraft Production, 1918; 
Technical Advisory Assistant to Navy Compensation Board, charged 
with supervision of cost plus profit contracts for increase of the Navy, 
1919-1920. 

Charles Van Cise Wheeler: Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., and 
Liberty Loan Subscriptions. 

Robert Wickliffe Woolley: Interstate Commerce Commis- 
sion; Director of Publicity, First Liberty Loan. 



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God give us men. A time like this demands 

Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands. 

God give us men. — J. G. Holland. 




GAILLARD HUNT 
Past President (1915-1916) 



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PROCEEDINGS AT A STATED MEETING 

Of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia, at the 
Army and Navy Club, April 30, 1919, commemorating George 
Washington's inauguration as First President of the United States. 

General Richards : Mr. President, and Members of the Army 
and Navy Club ; permit me to present to you, the Society of the Sons 
of the Revolution. 

General McIntyre: Gentlemen of the Sons of the Revolution, 
and Members of the Army and Navy Club ; we have come together 
this evening at the suggestion of the Sons of the Revolution who desire 
to honor the Army and Navy Club. I take great pleasure in intro- 
ducing Mr. Gaillard Hunt, who will speak for the Sons of the Revo- 
lution. 

GEORGE WASHINGTON, THE NATIONALIST. 
Mr. Hunt: 

Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Army and Navy Club: 

We are about to present to you a portrait of General Washington, 
a copy of Gilbert Stuart's portrait, painted when Washington was 
President of the United States. This is an appropriate day on which 
to hang it on your walls, for it is the anniversary of his inauguration 
as our first President. Therefore, we are thinking of him tonight 
especially as President of the United States. 

It is not too much to say that it was he who made that office as it 
exists today, for it was he who gave it the responsibility and strength 
which have caused it to be a centering point for the thought of the 
nation. Let us see what Washington could have made of the office, 
if he had chosen to avoid responsibility. 

Under the provision of the Constitution which authorized him to 
request the opinions of the heads of the Departments, he could have 
published those opinions and followed them, thus putting upon the 
heads of the Departments the chief responsibility for executive affairs. 
Under the provision requiring the advice and consent of the Senate to 
appointments to office, he could have put upon the Senate the chief 
responsibility for the selection of officers of the United States. Under 
the provision requiring the Senate's participation in treaty-making, he 
could have made it the chief force in the management of our foreign 
relations. Instead of this, he made the heads of Departments his 
personal Cabinet, asking their advice and following it only when he 
chose to do so, and took upon himself full responsibility for all execu- 
tive acts. He consulted the Senate only in confirming his appoint- 
ments to office, making the selections himself, independently. He 



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consulted the Senate in foreign affairs only after he had determined 
what action he desired to take. He might have made his reports to 
Congress perfunctory enumerations of the conduct of executive busi- 
ness; instead of this, he presented to the Congress programmes for 
legislation. Thus he started the Government with one responsible, 
powerful executive head, upon whom public approbation and public 
criticism might concentrate. 

We are so constituted that our vital ideas must take a living form. 
We cannot embrace an abstraction ; we must expend ourselves upon a 
man. Our patriotism, our nationality, must be personified. George 
Washington gave us what our nature craved — not a mere presiding 
officer over the Government, but a visible, personal head to our coun- 
try, a real President of the United States. We were furnished at 
the beginning of our national existence with a binding force for all 
classes of citizens and all sections in a vast and varied empire. 

I doubt whether all the members of such an exceptionally well-in- 
formed audience as this could, without stopping to think, name all the 
members of the President's Cabinet; not many of us could name more 
than a dozen Senators ; few of us could give the names of all the mem- 
bers of the Supreme Court; but every member of any audience, every 
man on the street, every child in a school, everybody who is old enough 
to know anything knows who is the President of the United States. 
The man who holds that office is the one man for whom every voter 
who votes for national affairs has voted. The knowledge of him, of 
his views, of what he stands for is the one knowledge common to 
everybody in the United States, high or low, rich or poor, mechanic 
or professor, resident of Maine or resident of Nevada. 

It is remarkable how little the office of the Presidency has changed. 
When President Wilson personally delivered his messages to Congress 
there was much comment upon the act as an innovation, but, in reality, 
he was doing what George Washington and John Adams had done, 
what had been the habit for the first twelve years of our Govern- 
ment's existence. The practice had only been in abeyance, to be 
revived whenever a President saw fit to revive it. I recall that it was 
after one of his personal appearances before the Senate — and I believe 
his last — that General Washington said he "would be damned" if 
he ever went there again! 

Sometimes, Gentlemen, we who are members of the historical pro- 
fession, feel a little impatient with the oft-repeated statement that 
everything has changed. As a matter of fact, we know that the world 
changes very little and changes very gradually. The idea that be- 
cause of the mighty war which we have fought and won mankind has 
changed is a very superficial idea. The geography of the world has 
changed ; boundaries have been changed ; peoples who aspired to nat- 
ionality have been erected into nations; once powerful nations have 
been rendered weak ;but the people who live in these countries have not 



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changed any more than you and I have changed. An Austrian is still 
an Austrian; a Turk is still a Turk; and a German is still a German. 
You may pile indemnities upon him; you may diminish his boundaries; 
you may load him with a debt which his great-grandchildren cannot 
pay; but if you think that by doing these things you have changed his 
mind you are no better than the men of the dark ages were who 
thought that by burning people they could make them embrace another 
religion. Is history a pure science or is it an applied science? Is it 
something for us to read and study merely as an exercise to our brains, 
or is it something that teaches a lesson to be applied to present condi- 
tions? In other words, are we to apply to the problems of the present 
the experience of the past or are we to meet those problems with our 
wishes, our hopes and our dreams? It was Kipling who said of 
George Washington: 

// you can dream — and not make dreams your master; 
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim. 

It was Kipling again who counselled the English — as we can now 
counsel the Americans — 

Stand to your work and be wise — certain of sword and pen 
Who are neither children nor gods, but men in a world of men! 

The nature of man has not changed. We are, as we always were, 
"men in a world of men." And as long as there are men and nations 
of men in the world, those that are ambitious will endeavor to impose 
their will upon other men and other nations. This is the law of 
nature, the law of competition, the law of progress; and if recent his- 
tory teaches us anything it teaches that the nation which is not pre- 
pared to repel the attempts at domination of other nations is a nation of 
fools. Apply this to our own case and think of the hundreds of 
thousands of dead ; think of the hundreds of thousands of the disabled 
and crippled ; think of the incalculable waste of wealth which has re- 
duced nations to the point of starvation ; and then deny, if you can, 
that thousands of the dead would now be with us, thousands of the 
broken men would now be whole, thousands of the starving would 
now be fed, if we had been ready to meet, when it broke upon the 
world, the crisis which intelligent men had been predicting for years. 
I would as soon expect a gang of burglars to listen to a preacher's 
threats in a city where there are no police, as to expect a nation bent 
upon plundering other nations to listen to the admonitions of a gov- 
ernment which is not prepared to enforce its demands. 

Oh, but things are different now and we shall never have war any 
more! Are there, then, no burglar nations left? Are there no am- 
bitious nations left? How many wars are going on at this moment? 
A dozen or more, I believe, and all because of the efforts of nations to 
impose their will upon each other. 



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Ah, but we are to have internationalism, and the boundaries of 
nations are to mean no more to their inhabitants than the boundaries 
of our States mean to us who are Americans. 

I have said that a German is still a German in spite of his defeat, and 
I say now that an American is still an American in spite of his victory ; 
and if, as a result of this war, an American is less of an American than 
he was before he fought, then it will be the most tragic war that ever 
was lost. Then we will be in the position of the man who gained the 
whole world and lost his own soul, for the soul of America is the 
single-hearted patriotism of her people. I do not know what an 
internationalist is, unless he is a homeless man. He who loves all 
countries as much as he loves his own country, loves no country ; he is 
a man without a country. Unbidden, the old, familiar lines of Sir 
Walter Scott rise in your mind and in mine: 

Breathes there the man with soul so dead 
Who never to himself hath said, 

This is my own, my native land! 
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd 
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd 

From wand'ring on a foreign strand? 
If such there breathe, go, mark him well! 
For him no minstrel raptures swell — * * * 

To the vile dust from whence he sprung 
Unswept, unhonor'd and unsung. 

When we feel the truth of those lines we have risen to the realm of 
exalted sentiment; we have got beyond the range of argument; we 
have reached the point from which supporting argument must start 
and against which adverse argument must break ; for no one can argue 
against a virtue, and if patriotism is not a virtue then neither is the 
family relation from which it springs a virtue Patriotism means the 
feeling we have for our fatherland, and we call our country her or 
she as we do the mother who bore us and nurtured us. A patriot is 
"one whose ruling passion is his love of country," and if patriotism, or 
nationalism, be not a virtue then there are no virtues in this world. 

It was told of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, that when he was 
shown some loaded dice which had been found in the ruins of Pompeii 
he remarked that some of the virtues might be modern but all the vices 
were ancient. If this be true, then it may be possible that the virtue 
of patriotism, which is both ancient and modern, may sometime in the 
dim future be lost. It may go the way of certain human qualities 
which were once admired and now are not admired; but I insist that 
if it shall ever depart from among us its place will not be taken by the 
world-wide brotherhood of man and a world-wide love of humanity. 
Such altruism never has existed and never can exist so long as we are 
in a world of men — weak and imperfect men in a world of men as 



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weak and imperfect as ourselves. No nation was ever made great by 
a love of humanity, my friends. Nations have been made strong and 
useful in the world by the patriotism of their members, and nations 
have become weak and useless when their members have ceased to love 
them. Hear what George Washington said when he advised his 
countrymen : 

"Citizens by birth or choice of a common country that country has 
a right to concentrate your affections." 

And hear him again, speaking in the fulness of his experience: 

"There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon 
real favors from nation to nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience 
must cure, which just pride ought to discard." 

In other words, a nation should be true to itself and it cannot then 
be false to any nation. 

Do not for an instant suppose that the loss of the virtue of nation- 
alism would give us in compensation that eternal peace of which the 
dreamers dream. In reality, it would only substitute internecine war 
for international war. Nothing is plainer than that the great bind- 
ing force of a society is some common idea which all the members of 
that society hold ; and that nation is strongest in which all classes are 
held together by a common nationalism, so that the man who works 
with his hands and the man who works with his head, the professional 
man and the commercial man are all dominated by an unselfish devo- 
tion to the country of which they are a part. Take away that bind- 
ing force and society flies apart into the classes which constitute it, 
and you have the clash of class antagonism ; you have class hatred and 
something which it were base flattery to call class patriotism. In- 
stead of international competition you have substituted class competi- 
tion; instead of international warfare you have substituted class war- 
fare. 

At the close of our Revolution we had this very class warfare, and 
George Washington and his colleagues made a government which 
they hoped would render its recurrence impossible. In 1786 he saw 
Daniel Shays, a soldier of the Revolution, lead 2,000 working men 
in an attack upon the Government of Massachusetts. The methods 
of Shays' men and of similar dissatisfied elements throughout the 
country have a familiar look to us of the present day. There were 
bands, associations, voluntary gatherings of men, who reasoned that 
as this was a people's government it should do something to materially 
help the people. If the people's will was supreme they thought it 
should operate directly. In the way of their will stood the law and 
the courts, so they were opposed to law and the courts. They acted 
through committees who made their demands of legislatures and courts. 
They arrogated to themselves the title of "the people." In reality 
conditions were worse at that time than they are now. Shays, as I 
said, had 2,000 men under arms. Massachusetts was then a State of 
about 350,000 inhabitants. The State now has about ten times 



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as many inhabitants. Governor Bowdoin sent 4,000 troops 
against Shays. Therefore, a Shays of the present day should have 
20,000 men and the Governor would need an army of 40,000 men to 
oppose him. The upheaval of 1786 was only a little worse in Mass- 
achusetts than it was in other places. It existed everywhere in the 
country. 

What saved us then? Why, the formation of the Constitution 
of the United States; the Constitution which gave the people of 
America a nationality. Its first words are: "We, the people of the 
United States." It created the body politic known as "the people of 
the United States." Before that there had been the people of thir- 
teen separate States; now we were to be one people. For the first 
time we were citizens of the United States ; for the first time we had 
a sovereign American nation. What a pitiful thought it is that after 
one hundred and thirty-three years of this nationality, after fighting a 
dreadful civil war to maintain it, after having grown to a giant's 
strength because of it, there should be any among us who would wish 
to diminish or abandon it! And never forget this: Internationalism 
means the abandonment of nationalism, and carried to its logical con- 
clusion it would mean that the United States of America would be no 
more in the world than one of our States is in the American nation. 

This is all I have to say, Gentlemen. Let this portrait of George 
Washington remind us that he made the office of President of the 
United States ; that he gave us a personal head to our nation, a human 
expression of our nationalism ; that the office has not changed ; that we 
have not changed, but are as much Americans now as we were before 
the upheaval of the world from which we have just emerged; that 
before we had a nation we had a warfare of classes and that our 
Government was formed to prevent such warfare in the future ; that 
it will be prevented as long as the predominant idea of all our classes 
is unselfish devotion to our nation ; that this is a human world and our 
nation must be prepared to defend itself against attempted aggression; 
that patriotism, or nationalism, is the highest of the civic virtues, and 
to diminish or destroy it would be to substitute for it class antagonism 
and class warfare, such as arose among us before our nation was 
formed; that the foe of nationalism is internationalism, which if it 
should ever prevail would destroy our nation. The portrait which 
we are presenting to you is the portrait of George Washington, the 
Nationalist. 

{Turning to General Richards) . 

General Richards, before we give this portrait to the Army and 
Navy Club, I ask your indulgence to make a suggestion to you as 
President of the Sons of the Revolution. Our Society ought to do 
something to show conspicuously that it is mindful of the fact that 
the Revolution and the Constitution are eternally linked together — 
that without the Constitution the Revolution would have resulted in 



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failure and George Washington and our forefathers would have 
fought in vain. I ask you to consider this: 

Underneath the bridge now building across the Potomac River at 
Georgetown, the Key Bridge, called after the author of our national 
anthem, flows the old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and near there is 
the terminus of that historic waterway. That canal is the physical 
evidence of the statesmanship which resulted in the formation of the 
Constitution. In 1784 the Potomac Company was formed to improve 
the navigation of the Potomac River, and the Potomac Company be- 
came in course of time the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. It 
was a conference over the Potomac Company and its objects which 
brought the delegates from Virginia and Maryland together in a meet- 
ing at Washington's house at Mt. Vernon, which caused Maryland 
to propose a larger meeting which should include delegates from Dela- 
ware and Pennsylvania, those States being also interested in Potomac 
navigation. This caused Virginia to propose a meeting at Annapolis 
of representatives from all the States to consider trade regulations and 
the Annapolis meeting proposed the meeting at Philadelphia in 1787 
which framed the Constitution. How striking and appropriate it 
would be if our Society should erect some monument or marker near 
the old canal to tell the many people who pass that way that out of the 
conferences concerning it had come the Government under which we 
live. 

{Turning to General Mclntyre). 

General Mclntyre, the relations between the Society of the Sons 
of the Revolution and the Army and Navy Club are intimate. Many 
of our members are also your members. Our President is also your 
Vice-President. Those of your members who wear our insignia do 
so without apology. They think it is a proper adornment to the 
American uniform; and especially so when it finds companionship in 
decorations which have been conferred upon the wearer for his own 
gallant and distinguished service in time of war. The medals which 
he has won himself are indeed set off by our medal, which shows that 
his descent is as honorable as his conduct and that his distinction began 
five generations ago. We can confidently hope that it will continue 
into the generations which are yet unborn. 

We have been your guests on numerous occasions, and, speaking 
frankly, we hope to be your guests again. To leave upon your walls 
a visible expression of our appreciation of your kind hospitality we 
have obtained this fine portrait of our patron, General Washington, 
and now present it to you with the assurance of our thanks. 

General McIntyre: In thanking the Sons of the Revolution 
for this beautiful gift to the Army and Navy Club, I wish first, to 
thank them for the charming and scholarly address which we have had 
the pleasure of listening to. It is indeed a great pleasure to receive 
this gift, and it comes particularly well from the Sons of the Revolu- 



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tion. A portrait to be of the greatest value, should come from the 
person of whom it is the portrait, or from his family — it is impossible 
now to receive this portrait from the original, but we have done the 
next best thing. From no organization could we receive a picture of 
George Washington with the same meaning as from the Sons of the 
Revolution, who in a particular manner represent all that Washington 
represented in his day, and who keep his sentiments alive in our people. 

George Washington was first a soldier, and after he had laid down 
the cares of life and retired, he became again a soldier. He was first 
a soldier and last a soldier, and always a gentleman, and in no place 
will his picture be more appreciated than in the Army and Navy 
Club. An inspiration to our young officers and a source of pride to 
the older officers, who can likewise hope in an emergency to do what 
Washington did in the later years of his life, when he again took up 
the command of the American Army. 

I wish again in the name of the Army and Navy Club to thank you 
for this beautiful portrait; I thank you for the very scholarly address 
with which it has been presented, and now I will have the pleasure 
of asking Major Runcie if he will tell the members of the Club 
exactly what the picture is. I take pleasure in presenting Major 
Runcie. 

Major James E. Runcie: Gentlemen, it is my fault that you 
have to listen to me in telling the story of this picture tonight. By 
reason of some important connection that I had with the duty of pro- 
curing the picture for the Sons of the Revolution, because this body 
suggested that a story of the picture would be interesting to the gen- 
tlemen gathered here tonight to receive it, I was asked to give some 
account of the picture. 

The pedigree of the picture, naturally begins with its author, and 
although this picture is not by the hand of Gilbert Stuart, he, if not 
its father, is its progenitor, its grandfather. Gilbert Stuart was a 
native born expatriated American, who made his way to London, and 
there became the pupil of another famous painter, also an expatriated 
American, Benjamin West. In due course, Stuart reached the envi- 
able position of the foremost portrait painter of his time, the successor 
of the Sir Joshua Reynolds, and after attaining that eminence in his 
art, he found that the foremost man in all this world was George 
Washington, of his native country, and we Americans born on the 
soil rather take the eminence of Washington for granted in our own 
country. I think most of us fail until our attention is called to it, to 
recognize not only his eminence, but his preeminence in the whole 
worid in his time. There was no other figure in the world in the 
time of Washington's later years, from the time of the War of Inde- 
pendence until his death that compared in stature, in dignity, and in 
significance with that of George Washington; that obtains in other 
lands, and I think that most of us are unaware of it. I did not realize 
it myself until a few months ago, being in my own town and having 



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an informal reunion with some old school boy friends, one of whom 
has long occupied an eminent position, and George Washington com- 
ing up as a subject of conversation, the judge said that early in his 
judiciary career, he had been surprised to find candidates or applicants 
for admission to citizenship of the United States who did not know the 
name of the President. It then occurred to him to ask who was the 
first President of the United States, and the reply was prompt and 
accurate. He has ever since in the case of every foreigner who applied 
for admission to the privileges of citizenship asked who was the first 
President of the United States, and he had never found one candidate 
who did not know George Washington. He might simply offer the 
pronunciation of his name; he might lack familiarity with our lan- 
guage or our history, but he not only knew who George Washington 
was, but he knew before he had come to make this country the land 
of his endeavors. That is by way of showing why Gilbert Stuart 
came to the conclusion that it was for him to make the portrait of 
Washington by which he should be known to all mankind at this time 
and to posterity thereafter. 

The demand for portraits of Washington was something incredible ; 
I believe it would be impossible to say how many portraits of Wash- 
ington were executed at that time, most of them bear no recognizable 
resemblance to Washington, but the eminence of the man and the 
power of his name were so great that anything that was labeled 
"Washington," satisfied people who wanted something to remind them 
of that great man. Feeling so, Stuart came back to the United States 
and, as he found, unfortunately at a time when Washington was tired 
of sitting for his portrait. He had been pestered by painters, sculp- 
tors, and engravers until he had said he would have no more to do with 
them. He had had life masks taken and he had been portrayed in 
every conceivable way, and he refused even an artist so eminent as 
Stuart, permission to make a portrait. Stuart, however, was more 
than a great artist, he was a Yankee from Rhode Island. He then 
assailed Mrs. Washington, and represented to her that all the por- 
traits that had been made of the President (or as Mrs. Washington 
always called him before he became President, Mr. Washington, I 
think you will nowhere find in all Washington's fame, was he known 
as General Washington, he was Mr. Washington until he became 
President, and then he was "The President") ; so it was represented 
to Mrs. Washington that there should be portraits of the President 
and his wife for the Washington family. The others were for public 
purposes, they were for Governments, for Governors, for Societies, 
for great collectors, for galleries, but these were to be portraits for the 
family, and yielding to the plea of his wife, Washington consented, 
and this we owe to Stuart. Whether it was his original design, or 
whether in the course of the sitting, Stuart saw an opportunity to 
provide for himself for the rest of his life, he determined that the 
Washington family should never have the portrait of Washington, 



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and they never received it ; it was never finished. It exists today 
in the collection of the Boston Atheneum in an unfinished state, with 
which most of us are probably familiar from the many reproductions 
of it that have been made. But the artist felt that so long as he had 
had an original taken from life, the demands for portraits of Wash- 
ington would keep him supplied, and he referred to it jocularly in con- 
versation as his "Ever renewable or perpetual hundred pound note." 

When a real portrait of Washington was wanted after his decease, 
it was necessary to go to Stuart who would produce it; in that way he 
produced, well I don't know just how many, but more than forty, 
all of which are, in a sense, originals. They were widely distributed 
but most of them are now in the possession of galleries, libraries, 
historic societies, from which they will never be separated. At long 
intervals, one appears for sale. About a month ago one of Stuart's 
"hundred pound notes" was disposed of in New York for $75,000, 
which is good interest on a "hundred pound note." However, the 
President sat many times for the portrait, and then naturally wanted 
it delivered. He repeatedly called for it and was always put off. It 
still lacked the finishing touches; the painter was not quite satisfied 
with the expression. One pretention after another was availed of, 
until finally, the President, who at bottom was a man of temper, is 
reported to have said, "Mr. Stuart, when the portrait is finished, you 
may send it to me, but I will trouble you no more," and he did not, and 
Mr. Stuart never sent him the portrait. Stuart tells in his memoirs, 
in the manner of a portrait painter, that he endeavored to get his sub- 
ject interested in conversation and talk, and found it very difficult to 
get Washington to talk ; he tried him on war, on local affairs, on 
politics, on history of the great events in which he had been a great 
part, but he was not interested. He finally got him to talk about 
horses, and George Washington knew a good horse and loved a good 
horse, and brightened up at once, and then Stuart made the portrait. 
It has been observed that there is something constrained about the 
mouth, which Stuart always explains is due to the fact that Washing- 
ton was one of the few citizens sufficiently opulent to be supplied with 
false teeth that did not fit. The strength of that character was then 
in its infancy, but false teeth were carved from ivory. Washington 
had a set which are still preserved as a valued memory of the great 
man in a museum over in Baltimore, and they account for whatever 
peculiarity of appearance that may be observed in the representation 
of the subject's mouth. 

Well, among those who probably contributed $500 to Stuart for an 
original or at least a replica of his original from life, was a prominent 
banker of Philadelphia of those times, named Engle, who kept the 
picture through his life and to whose widow after his death it passed. 
On her death and the settlement of her estate, it was purchased by 
one Harold F. Procklin of New York, from whom it passed by pur- 
chase to one Warner, also of New York, who among other possessions 



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of his. was the owner of Constitution Island, the rocky old wooded 
headland opposite West Point. In the quaint old colonial house on 
Constitution Island, the picture hung for about 75 years; it was the 
most valued possession, the most highly cherished possession of the 
family. The daughters of Mr. Warner will be remembered by at 
least some of my fellow antiques here tonight as the author of pious 
books, books very popular, books that the younger generation knows 
nothing about. Other of my contemporaries will remember that 
Mrs. Warner was deeply interested in the moral and spiritual welfare 
of the U. S. Corps of Cadets and presided over Sunday Schools and 
Bible Classes that were held in the old dialectic hall ; many will remem- 
ber the quaint old three-wheeled "shays" which date back to Colonial 
Times in which she used to come over to West Point to minister to 
our spiritual welfare. The older of those two ladies died perhaps 
fifteen years ago, the younger survived up to about five years ago, and 
died at the age of ninety-two, and in her will, she bequeathed the 
original Stuart portrait to the Military Academy, or to the Corps of 
Cadets, in language which I think fitting to repeat to you. 

Inasmuch as my sister and I agreed long ago that when our portrait of 
George Washington, painted by Stuart, left our hands, it should go where we 
thought it would do the most good for our native land, therefore I give and 
bequeath the same to the Superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy, at 
West Point, New York, for the special use of the Corps of Cadets at the 
Academy, on the condition that said picture be kept at the Military Reserva- 
tion at West Point, and placed where the cadets can have free access to see 
and to study it, so learning to love and revere the man who under God 
founded the institution to which they belong, but gave them the country 
which they have sworn to defend. 

I think the memory of such a woman as testified by such a gift, 
is worthy to be cherished by every man in the Army, of the United 
States whether he ever saw West Point or not. We received 
the picture, then our troubles began. Among others, the State of New 
York served a citation upon us to show cause why we should not pay 
a tax to that state for the privilege of receiving the portrait of our 
founder, which had a market value of many thousands of dollars. It 
was necessary to make an appearance in court and plead in response 
to the citation. The patriotic character of the gift and of the institu- 
tion to which it was given, dismissed the validity of their plea, and we 
received this priceless portrait free from taxation at the hands of the 
state of New York. The picture had hung as I said I believe, in that 
ancient house which dates back to colonial times, over a fireplace in a 
low ceiled room. The smoke of the fires had accumulated along the 
picture and along the frame, and we were very fortunate to find an 
artist who was a disciple of Gilbert Stuart, who venerated Gilbert 
Stuart as we Americans venerate George Washington himself, and he 
undertook not to restore the picture in a sense of doing it over again, 
but to remove the marks of the hands of time and the smoke of that 



174 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



fireplace, and he did it miraculously, so that when the time came when 
a copy of the picture was wanted for another purpose, it was natural 
for us to turn to that artist and ask him to produce it; he did so, and he 
did it with a love of the subject in his heart, and the admiration that 
he had for the great painter whom he followed with such a result that 
I tried the experiment of putting the original and the copy side by 
side in frames, and it was a mere toss of a coin from every observer 
as to which was the original and which was the copy. 

It is to Arthur Dawson that we owe the merit of this copy which 
these gentlemen have presented to our Club tonight, and which I 
venture to say not half a dozen of us would be able to distinguish from 
the original if the original were here. It ought further to be said 
that there are countless portraits of Washington, fortunately, there 
are portraits which cover the greater part of his active life, the resem- 
blance can of course be traced through all of them. From the earliest 
portrait, it shows him at the age of 24 or 25 as a Virgina Colonel, and 
it is known as the "Virginia Colonel Portrait," down to the Stuart 
portrait, which is the last that has been made. It was observed at 
the time this portrait was made that it was a greater likeness of Wash- 
ington, perhaps it was; it represents Washington as the experienced 
and able artist saw his character, not the Washington who was the man 
of action, the man facing difficulties, the man triumphing over almost 
incredible obstacles, but the man with his life's work behind him, lofty, 
calm, and serene, and it is worthy of note that no other portrait of 
Washington is recognized at first glance. The Gilbert Stuart "Wash- 
ington," is recognized all over the world, it needs no label; this is the 
picture for which we are indebted to the courtesy and generosity of 
these gentlemen of the Sons of the Revolution, of the man who was 
not only the first man of our country, the first commander-in-Chief 
of our Army and our Navy, but who has been described not by an 
American, but by an Englishman, as the noblest figure that ever stood 
in front of the Nation's history. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 175 



JS Suggestion 

To Assist and Make More Permanent 

During the Second Quarter Century of Its Existence 

The Work of This Society 



HOW YOU CAN HELP 

Provide specifically for us in your will — or, if your will is already drawn, 
execute this form of codicil and attach to your will. 



CODICIL TO WILL 

I, ,of. 

do hereby make and publish this, as and for a codicil to, my Last Will of date on 

or about , 19 ; that is to say: 

Form No. 1 Form of Bequest of Money 

I give and bequeath to the Society, Sons of the Revolution, in the District 
of Columbia, a corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, 
and having its principal office in Washington, District of Columbia, the sum of 
$ , free from all inheritance tax thereon. 



Form No. 2 Form of Bequest of Personal Property Other than Money 

I give and bequeath to the Society, Sons of the Revolution, in the District 
of Columbia, a corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, 
and having its principal office in Washington, District of Columbia, free from all 
inheritance tax thereon, the following described personal property, to wit: (here in- 
sert description of property, books, manuscripts, etc.). 



Form No. j Form of Devise of Real Property 

I give and devise to the Society, Sons of the Revolution, in the District of 
Columbia, a corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, and 
having its principal office in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, free from 
all inheritance tax thereon, all that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situated in the 



176 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

County of. , State of. 

and particularly described as follows: (here insert legal description of property). 

* * * 

I hereby re-publish and confirm my said Last Will in all respects, save only in so 
far as the same, or any part thereof, or of any prior codicil thereto, may be revoked, 
altered by, or inconsistent with, this codicil. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, , have 

hereunto set my hand this day of. , 19 , 



The foregoing codicil was on the date hereof signed, published and declared 

by the said , the testator therein 

named, as and for a codicil to his last will, all in the presence of both of us, who, at 
his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto 
on the date aforesaid, subscribed our respective names as witnesses hereto. 

residing at 

residing at 



N. B. — (Codicil should both be signed and declared to be such by testator in 
the presence of the witnesses, (both of whom must be present at such signing and 
declaration), who, at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each 
other, must subscribe their respective names thereto, adding their several ad- 
dresses). 



Honor, justice, and humanity call upon us to hold and 
to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received 
from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to 
our children; but it is our duty to leave liberty to them. 
— John Dickinson. 




HENRY LOWRY EMILIUS JOHNSON 

SURGEON 

Past President (1911-12) 



BORN NOVEMBER 1 1 . 1858 — DIED DECEMBER 21 . 1915 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 177 



NECROLOGY 

SONS OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE DISTRICT OF 
COLUMBIA, 1915-1920 



Admitted Died 

William Kearney Carr. 
June 27, 1894. October 7, 1915. 

Great-great-grandson of Jonas Johnston (1740-1779); 
Major, North Carolina Militia, who died of wounds re- 
ceived at battle of Stony Ferry 1779. 

Thomas Stowell Phelps, Jr. 

April, 1892. November 3, 1915. 

Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy (Retired). 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Nixon (1736-1800); 
Captain 1774; Lieutenant Colonel of Minute-men 1775; 
Lieutenant Colonel Sixth Massachusetts Regiment 1775; 
Colonel, Sixth Massachusetts Regiment 1776; served until 
the close of the war. 

Henry Lowry Emilius Johnson. 

November 5, 1898. December 21, 1915. 

Physician. 

Great-great-grandson of Theophilus Goodyear (1731- 
1793) ; Private in Regiment commanded by Colonel Wil- 
liam Douglas, 1776; Corporal, Sixth Regiment, Connecticut 
Line, under same Colonel; 1777-1780, participated in battle 
of White Plains. 

Dr. Henry L. E. Johnson was born in Washington, D. C, Novem- 
ber 11, 1858, and was the son of Henry L. and Emily E. J. Johnson. 
He was also a nephew of Charles Goodyear, who invented the pro- 
cess for vulcanizing India rubber. He received his degree in medicine 
from Columbian (now George Washington) University, in 1882. 

He was professor of surgical gynecology at Columbian University 
from 1889 to 1906, and professor of the Washington Post-Graduate 
School of Medicine, subsequent to 1897; was consulting gynecologist 
of Providence Hospital, the Woman's Clinic, and the Government 
Hospital for the Insane. 

Dr. Johnson was a member of the American Public Health Asso- 
ciation ; the American Therapeutic Society ; governor of the Society 
of the Colonial Wars; President of the American Colonization So- 



178 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

ciety ; member of the Society of Descendants of Colonial Governors ; 
charter membei of the University Club, and he also belonged to the 
Aero Club of America. 

He was author of many medical monographs and was patentee of 
a safety aeroplane, a ship and aeroplane compass, and an inclinometer. 

Dr. Johnson represented the United States at the International 
Congress of Hygiene in Berlin in 1907; at the International Sanitary 
Conference of American Republics in Mexico City in 1907; at the 
International Medical Congress in Budapest in 1909; was vice-presi- 
dent of the first, second, third, and fourth Pan-American Medical 
Congresses; vice-president of the first, second, and third International 
Sanitary Conventions of the American Republics; a member of the 
executive committee of the International Hygiene Exhibition in 
Dresden, Germany in 1911; trustee of the American Medical Asso- 
ciation from 1898 to 1909, and vice-president of it in 1910 and 1911. 
He was also a former president of the Medical Association of the 
District of Columbia and of the Clinical-Pathological Society of the 
District. 

Dr. Johnson died suddenly at his home, 1821 Jefferson Street, 
Washington, on the night of December 21, 1915. 

Admitted Died 

Charles Lawrence Gurley. 

January 12, 1892. February 13, 1916. 

Office of Adjutant General of the Army, War Department. 

Great-grandson of Roswell Post (1753-1827); Soldier 
with Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga, and with Stark at Ben- 
nington ; Private, Captain Simeon Wright's Company, Col- 
onel Warren's Regiment, 1779; Sergeant in the same Com- 
pany, 1779-1780; Clerk in Captain Blanchard's Company, 
Colonel Allen's Regiment, 1780; Member of Board of Se- 
lectmen of Rutland, Vermont, 1780; Clerk in Colonel Lee's 
Regiment, 1781; Member of Board of Selectmen of Rut- 
land, Vermont, 1782. 

James Anthony Sample. 

November 30, 1891. June 9, 1916. 

Cashier, United States Treasury. 

Great-grandson of Joseph DeFrees (1753-1826); Ship's 
Carpenter on privateer; three times prisoner and twice on 
prison ship "Jersey/' 

James Anthony Sample was the great-grandson of Robert DeFrees, 
a ship's carpenter on a privateer who was three times a prisoner of war, 
and twice was confined on the prisonship "Jersey," in New York 
harbor. 




JAMES ANTHONY SAMPLE 
General Treasurer, Sons of the Revolution (1914-1916) 



BORN OCTOBER 6, 1844 — DIED JUNE 9, 1916 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 179 

Mr. Sample was born in South Bend, Indiana, in 1844, and came 
to Washington when he was about eighteen years old. He was a per- 
sonal friend of President Lincoln, through whose influence he was 
appointed to the Treasury Department, where he successively held 
the offices of teller, assistant cashier, and then that of cashier. He was 
an expert in finance, and a man of marked ability, being considered 
one of the very best men in the department. Notwithstanding 
changes of administrations he remained undisturbed in his responsible 
position for many years. 

He was President of the City Savings Bank, of Washington, D. C, 
when that institution was merged with the District National Bank, 
and at the time of his death he was a director in the latter organiza- 
tion. He was a Trustee of All Souls' Unitarian Church. 

Mr. Sample was Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Masons 
of the District of Columbia from 1901 until his death, and was Grand 
Master of Masons in the District of Columbia, in 1890. He was a 
member of the High Priest of Washington Chapter No. 2, and a 
member of Washington Commandery No. 1 ; also a member of B. B. 
French Lodge No. 15, of which he was a Past Master. Mr. Sample 
served for 25 years as a member of the Sons of the Revolution in the 
District of Columbia. In 1914 at the Triennial Convention of the 
General Society, he was unanimously elected General Treasurer, 
which office he held at the time of his death. 

Mr. Sample's death was sudden. It occurred at the annual ban- 
quet of the National Rifles' Veterans' Association, in Washington, 
D. C. He had just responded to a toast in which he had paid a glow- 
ing tribute to the American Flag. As he resumed his seat, and while 
in the act of reaching for a glass of water, he was seen to fall sud- 
denly forward. Friends and fellow members went to his assistance 
and endeavored to revive him, but within a few moments he was dead. 
Those present who had listened with such enthusiasm to his tribute to 
"Old Glory," could hardly realize that his end had come. 

Admitted Died 

Fayette Washington Roe. 

November 11, 1890. September 28, 1916. 

Captain, U. S. Army (Retired). 

Great-grandson of John Roe (1754-1831) ; Minute-man, 
New York Line and Quartermaster, First Regiment Suffolk 
County Militia, Colonel William Floyd. 

Charles William Whipple. 

June 25, 1892. October 18, 1916. 

Major, U. S. Army (Retired). 

Great-grandson of David Whipple (1759-1842) ; Private 
Captain Whipple's Company, Fifth Massachusetts, Colonel 



180 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



Admitted Died 

Putnam's Regiment, from January 1, 1777, to December 
31, 1779. 

Great-great-grandson of John Blunt ( 1798) ; a mem- 
ber of the New Hampshire Legislature, 1778-81. 

Davis Carneal Anderson. 

November 21, 1890. November 9, 1916. 

Stock-broker. 
Grandson of Richard Clough Anderson (1750-1826); 
Captain, Fifth Virginia Regiment; Major First Virginia 
Militia; Lieutenant-Colonel Continental Army; Brigadier- 
General, Virginia Militia, Aide-de-Camp to Lafayette; origi- 
nal member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

Jesse Houck Ramsburgh. 
April 17, 1916. January 2, 1917. 

Physician. 

Great-great-grandson of John Ramsburgh, Sr. (1741- 
1807) ; who was made a member of the Committee to raise 
$1,333, Frederick County's apportionment of $10,000, which 
the Provincial Convention appointed to be raised for the 
purchase of "Arms and Ammunition" for the War of 1776. 

Great-great-grandson of Peter Stille (1748-1803) ; First 
Lieutenant, Middle District, First Battalion of Frederick 
County, Maryland, Captain John Stoner's Company. 

Great-great-grandson of John Houck, who took the Pa- 
triot's Oath at the March Court, 1778, in Frederick County, 
Maryland. 

Great-great-great-grandson of Christian Orndorff (1726- 
1796) ; First Lieutenant, Second Maryland Battalion Flying 
Camp, 1776; Captain First Maryland, 1778, and served to 
close of war. 

George Dewey. 

December 20, 1916. January 16, 1917. 

Admiral of the Navy. 

Great-grandson of William Dewey (1746-1813); Cor- 
poral in Captain Worthy Waters' Company, Hebron Con- 
necticut Militia "Lexington Alarm." 

General Order No. 258 

Navy Department, Washington, January 17, 1917. 
It is with feelings of genuine grief that the Secretary of the Navy 
announces the death at 5 :56 p. m., yesterday at his residence in Wash- 
ington of The Admiral of the Navy. 





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GEORGE DEWEY 
The Admiral of the Navy 



BORN DECEMBER 25, 1837 — DIED JANUARY 16, 1917 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 181 



The career of George Dewey "ran in full current to the end." 
Vermont was his mother State, and there was always in his character 
something of the granite of his native hills. Dewey was under fire 
with Farragut in the Mississippi River, and bore himself gallantly 
throughout the War between the States. 

The battle in Manila Bay on May 1, 1898, made him the foremost 
naval officer since Farragut and victor of the first American sea-fight 
with a foreign foe since the War of 1812. 

"Gentlemen, a higher power than we has won this battle today," 
the Commodore said to his captains at the conclusion of the battle 
when it had been learned that the victory, one of the most decisive in 
our history, had been won without the loss of a single American sea- 
man. In peace; in war; in sickness; in health; in victory and in con- 
flict, and in every relation of life Admiral Dewey invariably exhibited 
the virtues of the patriot and the Christian. 

His whole life, 62 years of which were spent in the Navy, was full 
of honorable achievement, and his service in peace has been hardly less 
distinguished than his laurels in war. As President of the General 
Board of the Navy since its inception, he has played a leading part in 
making the nation ready for war on the seas. The same statesman- 
like qualities which he exhibited in handling the international situa- 
tion at Manila after the battle of May 1, 1898, he has shown as the 
head of this board of naval experts. 

In recognition of his victory in Manila Bay, the then Commodore 
was advanced one grade to that of rear admiral, and in addition re- 
ceived the thanks of Congress. Later by special act of Congress he 
was promoted to be The Admiral of the Navy, a rank never held by 
an American Naval officer previously, although two, Porter and Far- 
ragut, were rewarded with the rank of full Admiral. He was placed 
by Congress on the active list until such time as he might see fit to 
apply for retirement. But his active spirit could not rest. He never 
folded his hands. He chose to die on the bridge, even until the Pilot 
came aboard his life-craft who should take him across the bar. He 
died one of the foremost figures of modern times. 

On the day of the funeral the flag will be displayed at half-mast at 
all navy yards and stations and on board all ships in commission, and 
nineteen minute guns will be fired at noon from each navy yard and 
from the senior ship present afloat. 

The Navy Department will be draped, and all officers of the Navy 
and Marine Corps will wear the badge of mourning with the uniform 
for thirty days. 

The Navy Department by executive order will be closed on Satur- 
day, January 20, 1917. 

Josephus Daniels, 
Secretary of the Navy. 



182 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

Admitted Died 

Samuel Scoville Paschal. 
March 2, 1915. January 17, 1917. 

Grandson of George Paschal (1760-1832); Private, 
Captain John Hughes' (Fifth) South Carolina Troops of 
Colonel Anthony Walton White's Regiment of Continental 
Dragoons. 

David Rittenhouse. 

March 28, 1891. January 29, 1917. 

Paying Teller, Riggs National Bank. 

Great-great-grandson of John Bull (1730-1824); Com- 
missioner to treat with Indians at Easton, Pennsylvania, 
1777; Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania, 1779; in com- 
mand Second Brigade, Pennsylvania Militia, after General 
Irwin's capture ; Delegate to Provincial Conference, Janu- 
ary and July, 1775; Member of Convention, 1776; also 
member of Pennsylvania Board of War. 

Green Clay Goodloe. 

March 29, 1890. February 3, 1917. 

Brigadier-General , U. S. Marine Corps (Retired). 

Great-grandson of Green Clay (1757-1826); Delegate 
to the Virginia Convention, 1778. 

Great-great-grandson of James Speed (1739-1811); 
Lieutenant in Cocke's Militia Regiment. 

Great-great-grandson of Thomas Lewis (1747-1809); 
First Lieutenant, Eleventh Virginia Regiment, 1778. 

Green Clay Goodloe, son of General David Short Goodloe and 
Sally Ann Clay Smith Goodloe, was born at Castle Union, Madison 
County, Kentucky, January 31, 1845 on the plantation of his grand- 
father, Colonel John Speed Smith. He was a great-grandson of Gen- 
eral Green Clay, for whom he was named, an officer in the Revolu- 
tionary War and a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1789. 
He was also on the maternal side a great-great-grandson of James 
Speed a Lieutenant in Cocke's Militia Regiment ; another great-great 
grandsire was Thomas Lewis, a Lieutenant in the Continental Army, 
11th Infantry (1778). 

When the Civil War became imminent the Goodloe family in 
Kentucky, threw their powerful influence on the side of the Union. 
No one thing did more to hold that State then wavering true to her 
allegiance to the Federal Union. 

Green Clay Goodloe, then a boy of 16 was a marker in the Lexing- 
ton Chasseurs; and carried the United States Flag the last time it ap- 




GREEN CLAY GOODLOE 

Brigadier-General, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired) 
Past President (1898-99) 



BORN JANUARY 31, 1845 — DIED FEBRUARY 3, 1917 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 183 



peared in a parade of the Old Kentucky State Guard. Later in that 
year he joined the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment and was mus- 
tered into the Federal service October 16, 1862, joining it at War- 
trace, Tennessee, as it stood in line of battle. In all, he was in ten 
cavalry battles and skirmishes during the Civil War. For his gallant 
conduct at the Battle of Lebanon, Tennessee, General Dumont rec- 
ommended his promotion to First Lieutenant. Surgeon Adams 
supplies us the details: "Clay Goodloe kept in line with Colonel 
Smith and was grazed on the third joint of the second finger by a 
bullet. * * * * He is a gallant and noble boy, yet beardless, but 
had the courage of a veteran." 

Later he served with Company I of the 23d Kentucky Infantry 
Volunteers from which regiment he was detailed as aide-de-camp on 
the staff of his Uncle, General Green Clay Smith. At the cavalry 
battle of Little Harpeth, Forrest's men completely surrounded and 
cut him off. The official report says "Lieutenant Clay Goodloe of 
General Smith's staff in returning from delivering an order found him- 
self surrounded by rebels and had to run the gauntlet. After empty- 
ing his holster pistols, he laid flat on his horse, relying upon his spurs 
and his 'Lexington.' They brought him safely home, but he had a 
bullet-hole through his pants to remind him of the amiable intentions 
of his Southern brethren." 

In September 1863 Green Clay Goodloe resigned his commission 
in the Volunteers to enter the United States Military Academy at 
West Point. In January, 1865 he left West Point to study law at the 
Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky. 

On April 21, 1869 he accepted appointment as a Second Lieuten- 
ant, U. S. Marine Corps, served at various shore stations and at sea 
on board the U. S. S. W 'achusetts and the U. S. S. Michigan; pro- 
moted First Lieutenant January 12, 1876; appointed Major and 
Paymaster U. S. Marine Corps March 17, 1877, promoted to Colonel 
and Paymaster March 3, 1899. On January 31, 1909 he was placed 
on the retired list with the advance rank of Brigadier-General, U. S. 
Marine Corps (Retired). 

General Goodloe was a member of the Virginia Society of the 
Order of the Cincinnati; The Loyal Legion (commander in 1913- 
1914) ; the Grand Army of the Republic, Kit Carson Post, and the 
Army of the Cumberland. He was a member of the Sons of the 
Revolution in the District of Columbia for twenty-seven years serv- 
ing as its President for the year 1899. 

General Goodloe's first wife was Betty Buckner Beck, daughter of 
United States Senator James Burnie Beck, of Kentucky. He is sur- 
vived by his second wife, who was Marian Campbell Johnson, and one 
son, Green Clay Goodloe, Jr. 



184 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 

Admitted Died 

Mark Brickell Kerr. 

April 14, 1890. March 15, 1917. 

Great-great-grandson of Matthias Brickell (1710-1780) ; 
Lieutenant-Colonel Hertford County Militia of North 
Carolina. 

George Herbert Beaman. 

April 2, 1894. May 5, 1917. 

A ttorney-at-Law. 

Great-grandson of Joseph Beaman (1733-1813); Pri- 
vate, Captain Benjamin Houghton's Company, Massachu- 
setts Troops. 

Walter Audubon McClurg. 
June 5, 1893. June 15, 1917. 

Medical Director, U. S. Navy (Retired). 

Great-great-grandson of Alexander Russell ( 1755-1836) ; 
Lieutenant, Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Troops, com- 
manded by Colonel Irvine. 

Samuel Walter Woodward. 
November 7, 1899. August 2, 1917. 

Merchant. 

Great-grandson of Samuel Woodward (1750-1815); 
Private, Captain Henry Hunt's Company, Colonel Jones' 
Regiment, 1777; Private, Captain Benjamin Plummer's 
Company, Colonel Jones' Regiment, 1779. 

Duncan Clinch Phillips. 

March 26, 1910. September 13, 1917. 

Retired Manufacturer. 

Grandson of John Phillips (1751-1831) ; Private in Cap- 
tain William Tucker's Company, Colonel Isaac Smith's 
Regiment, New Jersey Militia, 1775; commissioned Ensign 
in Captain Joseph Stout's Company, Second Battalion, New 
Jersey Continental Line, 1777; commissioned Captain in 
Colonel Joseph Phillips' Regiment, New Jersey Militia, and 
served as such until close of the war. 

Richard Dickinson Jewett. 

February 26, 1891. October 26, 1917. 

A ttorney-at-Law. 

Great-grandson of David H. Jewett; Surgeon in Conti- 
nental Army. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 185 

Admitted Died 

Frederick Rodgers. 

January 29, 1909. November 3, 1917. 

Rear- Admiral, U. S. Navy (Retired). 

Great-grandson of John Rodgers; Captain Company No. 
5, Hartford County Militia, Maryland; later Colonel. 

Alan Ogilvie Clephane. 

December 9, 1915. January 13, 1918. 

Attorney-at-Law. 

Great-grandson of Thomas Painter (1760-1848); Pri- 
vate, Captain Robert Brown's Company ; also served under 
Captain James Prentice ; afterwards served on many vessels 
and was captured by H. M. Ship of War, " Albicore." 

Great-grandson of Augustus Collins (1743-1813); Pri- 
vate, Lexington Alarm, 1775; Ensign, Second Company 
General Wooster's First Connecticut Regiment; Second 
Lieutenant, Captain Hand's Guilford Company, Colonel 
Talcott's Regiment, 1776; Captain, Third Company, Col- 
onel Thaddeus Cook's Regiment, Second Battalion of State 
Regiments, Generals Spencer and Wooster, 1776; appoint- 
ed Captain by the General Assembly of a Battalion raised 
for the defense of the State of Connecticut, 1777; Major, 
Twenty-eighth Regiment, 1782. 

Frederic May. 
March 4, 1895. January 14, 1918. 

Broker. 

Great-grandson of John May (1748-1812) ; Member of 
Boston "Tea Party" 1773; Colonel, First or Boston Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts Militia ; Major under Count de Roch- 
ambeau in Rhode Island. 

Marcus Alexander Jordan. 
December 11, 1915. March 27, 1918. 

Real Estate. 

Great-great-grandson of Captain John Martin (1748- 
1813) ; who served in the Continental Army to the end of 
the war. 

Great-grandson of John Archer Elmore (1762-1834); 
who served as a lad in the Revolution with his brother 
Thomas. 



186 SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 



Admitted Died 

John Floyd Waggaman. 

June 4, 1894. May 18, 1918. 

Real Estate. 

Great-grandson of John Tyler (1747 ); father of 

President Tyler; First Lieutenant, Third Virginia Infantry. 

Aaron Ward. 

November 22, 1893. July 5, 1918. 

Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy (Retired). 

Great-grandson of Elkanah Watson (1758-1842); Pri- 
vate in the "Providence, Rhode Island Company" under 
Colonel Nightingale, 1775. 

Lyman Walter Vere Kennon. 

September 17, 1894. September 9, 1918. 

Brigadier-General, U. S. Army. 

Great-grandson of Asaph Hall; First Lieutenant Fourth 
Connecticut Infantry, 1775; Member of Connecticut Legis- 
lature and of the Constitutional Convention. 

John Sidney Webb. 
December 3, 1889. October 3, 1918. 

Attorne-at-Law. 
(charter member). 

Great-grandson of John Webb (1759 ); Captain 

Second Regiment of Connecticut Dragoons. 

Great-grandson of John Randall ( 1825) ; Colonel 

and Quartermaster-General of Maryland Troops. 

George Xavier McLanahan. 

March 3, 1909. October 29, 1918. 

Attorney-at-Law. 

Great-great-great-grandson of James Potter (1729- 
1789) ; Colonel Pennsylvania Militia, 1775; Brigadier-Gen- 
eral, Pennsylvania Militia, 1777; Major General, 1782. 

Eben Dodge Appleton. 

January 12, 1892. December 4, 1918. 

Great-grandson of Robert Dodge (1743-1823); Lieu- 
tenant, Captain, Major and Colonel of Massachusetts 
Troops. 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 187 

Admitted Died 

James Henry Hayden. 

November 22, 1893. December 19, 1918. 

A ttorney-at-Law. 

Great-great-grandson of Lemuel Harrison (1739-1807) ; 
of Litchfield and New Milford, Connecticut; Lieutenant 
in Colonel Meade's Military Oragnization, 1780. 

Ira Broadwell Conkling. 

March 15, 1912. March 2, 1919. 

Clerk, Interstate Commerce Commission. 

Great-grandson of Joseph Lindsley (1735-1822) ; Major 
of Eastern Battalion of Morris County, New Jersey Troops. 

Great-grandson of Stephen Conklin (1721-1791); Pri- 
vate, Morris County, New Jersey Militia. 

Pierre Christie Stevens. 

January 26, 1891. April 20, 1919. 

Major, U. S. Army (Retired). 

Great-great-grandson of Comfort Sage ( 1799) ; 

Lieutenant-Colonel of Connecticut State Troops com- 
manded by Colonel James Wadsworth, which served at 
Boston from December, 1775, to February, 1776; Colonel 
of Third Battalion, under Brigadier-General James Wads- 
worth, which was raised in June, 1776, to reinforce General 
Washington at New York; engaged in the Battle of Long 
Island. 

Francis Warfield Herrick Clay. 

October 24, 1916. May 10, 1919. 

Assistant Commissioner of Patents. 

Great-grandson of Major General Green Clay (1757- 
1826) ; who was a subordinate officer, in the engagements 
with the British and Indians in the West from 1776 to 1783, 
elected by the soldiers. He was a delegate from Ken- 
tucky County, to the Virginia Convention of 1778; voted 
there in 1788 for ratification of the Constitution of the U. S. 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Thomas Lewis (1747- 
1809) ; Burgess in the Augusta Assembly in 1765, repre- 
sentative from Augusta in the Virginia Legislature in 1775; 
Commissioned Second Lieutenant of the Fifteenth Virginia 



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Admitted Died 

Regiment, November 21, 1776; First Lieutenant March 20, 
1777. Retired as Colonel in February, 1781. 

Great-great-grandson of Major Ezekiel Herrick (1728- 
1798) ; was a member from Tyringham, of the famous 
Berkshire County Congress of July 6, 1774, which voted a 
solemn pledge to forego the use of any and all articles of 
British manufacture and to resist England's tyranny. Upon 
the breaking out of the war he entered the army as a sub- 
ordinate officer but was almost immediately made Captain, 
taking active part in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga. 

Thomas Hyde. 
March 13, 1893. July 21, 1919. 

Banker. 

Great-grandson of Thomas Hyde, of Severn (1725- 
1795) ; Commissioner for the Emission of Bills of Credit 
and Notes for carrying on the war. 

Butler Delaplaine Price. 

May 26, 1914. August 29, 1919. 

Brigadier-General, U. S. Army (Retired). 

Great-grandson of Isaac Senter (1753-1799); Surgeon 
of Rhode Island Troops in the Expedition to Canada, Nov- 
ember, 1775, to March, 1776; Hospital Surgeon, July 20, 
1776, to April, 1779; Representative in General Assembly 
of Rhode Island, 1779-80; Surgeon-General State of Rhode 
Island, 1780-83; Original member of the Society of the 
Cincinnati, and its President from 1789 to 1799. 

Aaron Ward Weaver. 
April 15, 1912. October 2, 1919. 

Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy (Retired). 

Great-grandson of Theodoras Van Wyck (3d) (1730- 

) ; Member of New York Provincial Congress, 1776; 

Commissioner on Sequestration, Dutchess County, 1777. 

Great-grandson of Stephen Miller (1755-1834) ; Private 
Eighth Regiment, Colonel Robert Van Rensselaer, New 
York Militia. 

Richard Gray Park. 
February 16, 1897. December 1, 1919. 

Great-grandson of William Anderson (1747-1820); 
Sergeant in Captain William Rippey's Company, Sixth 
Pennsylvania Battalion, Colonel William Irvine, January 
18, 1776. 




JOHN VAN RENSSELAER HOFF 

Colonel (Medical Corps). U. S. Army (Retired) 
Past Vice President (1915-1916) 



BORN. APRIL 11. 1848 — DIED. JANUARY 14. 1920 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 189 

Admitted Died 

Robert Atwater Smith. 

December 13, 1915. December 31, 1919. 

Clerk, Department of War. 

Great-great-grandson of David Ativater (1723-1806); 
who with his son Cedad Atwater in company with their 
fellow-townsmen fought the British and Hessian soldiers 
commanded by General Tryon at the Invasion of New 
Haven, Connecticut, July 5, 1779. 

Robert Hollister Chapman. 

March 29, 1916. January 11, 1920. 

Major, Engineer Corps, U. S. A. — Topographical Engineer. 

Great-great-grandson of Samuel Peck, Jr., (1750- 
1834) ; commissioned Captain May 1, 1775, was discharged 
December, 1775; reentered the service June 14, 1776 in 
command of the Tenth Company of Colonel David Woos- 
ter's First Regiment, Connecticut Continental Troops. 

John Van Rensselaer Hoff. 

March 31, 1913. January 14, 1920. 

(By transfer from New York Society). 

Colonel, Medical Corps, U. S. Army (Retired). 

Great-great-grandson of Kilian Van Rensselaer (1717- 
1781); Colonel, Fourth Regiment, Albany County, New 
York Militia; October 30, 1775, to close of the War; Mem- 
ber of Albany County Committee of Correspondence, 1775; 
Member, New York Assembly, 1777-8. 

Descended from ancestors who distinguished themselves in the wars 
of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods, John Van Rensselaer Hoff. 
the son of Colonel Alexander Hoff and Ann Eliza Van Rensselaer, 
was born in Mount Morris, N. Y., on April 11, 1848. 

After preliminary studies at Union College, he entered its medical 
department, then known as the Albany Medical College, where he was 
graduated in 1871. Later he studied in the medical department of 
the University of Pennsylvania, and also in the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons of Columbia, where he was given the degree of M. D. 
in 1874, receiving his A. M. from Union in the same year, also he 
pursued special medical courses abroad, notably in Vienna in 1886. 

It was but natural on the completion of his studies that he should 
turn to the Army in which his grandfather and father had served with 
honor, and accordingly he entered the permanent establishment as an 



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assistant surgeon in November, 1874. From that time until his re- 
tirement in 1912 he continued in the active service of his country, 
attaining the rank of Colonel in his corps in 1904. 

At first he saw duty at various posts in the Western States, but as 
he grew in knowledge his responsibilities were increased and he was 
given charge of important stations both in the East and also on the 
Pacific Coast. He saw active service in the Indian outbreak of the 
winter of 1890, gaining for himself the official citation "for conspicu- 
ous bravery and coolness under fire in caring for the wounded in 
action against hostile Sioux Indians, at Wounded Knee Creek, South 
Dakota, and near the Catholic Missions, at White Clay Creek." 

On the outbreak of the war with Spain he was called from Van- 
couver Barracks, Washington, where he was then stationed and with 
the rank of lieutenant-colonel of volunteers, assigned to various duties 
at Chickamauga Park, including that of chief surgeon of the Third 
Army Corps. 

In 1898 he was sent to San Juan as chief surgeon of the Depart- 
ment of Porto Rico where his efficient service met with universal com- 
mendation and resulted in the eradication of smallpox and leprosy 
from that island. In other ways and especially as an organizer and 
an administrator, his exceptional ability made an impression on medi- 
cal conditions in that new possession that can never be forgotten. 

From Porto Rico he was sent in 1900 to Pekin where he acted as 
chief surgeon on the staff of Gen. Adna R. Chaffee during the China 
Relief Expedition, and then after service as chief surgeon at various 
headquarters he was designated in 1895 by the Secretary of War as 
an observer with the Russians in the War with Japan, and in recogni- 
tion of his work the Russian Government conferred upon him the 
decoration of St. Anne. 

Later he served as chief surgeon of the Department of the Missouri, 
whence in 1906 he was sent in a similar capacity to the Philippine 
Division of the Department of the Luzon, becoming chief surgeon of 
the Department. For a short time he held a like appointment in the 
Department of the Lakes, and finally also in the Department of the 
East, where in 1912, after thirty-eight years of active duty, he passed 
to the retired list. 

Meanwhile however, he had served on many boards, notably in 
1902 on that of the modification of uniform equipment of officers and 
men in general, and to him is due the credit for the adoption of the 
caduceus as the insignia of the army medical officer. 

One of his colleagues writes of his career that "the many years he 
gave to his country were active years, filled with important duties 
and with a record of things well done;" for "it was due to the direc- 
tion of the efforts of his able mind that many changes, and always 
changes for the better, were made in respect to the organization of the 
Medical Corps which he saw grow up and develop from its more 
simple predecessor, the Medical Department." 



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With his retirement came promise of leisure, and Washington be- 
came his home, but the call of the Service was irresistible and it was 
not long before he took up the pleasant task of editing "The Military 
Surgeon," the official organ of the Association of Military Surgeons 
of the United States, which he continued until the close of the World's 
War when he again retired from military duty. 

The story of his official life, important as it was, fails to include the 
many incidental activities with which he ever busied himself; for at 
various times he served as instructor and lecturer at different schools 
and colleges, and he was the author of numerous articles on military, 
medical, and sanitary subjects. 

His life-long attachment to the Episcopal Church led to faithful 
service as vestryman, both in Manila and at the church of the Epiph- 
any in Washington, and he was the President of the Lenthall Home 
and of the Executive Committee of the Garfield Memorial Hospital. 

In addition to the honors already mentioned, he was president of the 
Society of Military Surgeons in 1901-2, and in 1907 Bucknell Uni- 
versity gave him the degree of LL. D., and best of all, Union, his own 
Alma Mater, conferred upon him a similar recognition in 1913. 

He testified to his pride of ancestry by membership in the Loyal 
Legion, the Society of the War of 1812, the Society of Colonial Wars, 
and the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, especially in the District 
of Columbia Society of which he was vice-president in 1915, and his 
own services were commemorated by his membership in the Society 
of the Dragon. 

A loyal soldier, faithful to the interests of his beloved country, an 
able surgeon and physician, a splendid executive and organizer, a true 
Christian gentlemen, ever courteous and considerate, honored and 
respected by all who knew him, faithful to the end, he passed to his 
reward at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington City on January 
14, 1920. 

Marcus Benjamin. 

Admitted Died 

Richard Douglas Simms. 

January 10, 1917. March 31, 1920. 

Brigadier-General, Commanding District of Columbia 

National Guard. 

Great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Simms 
(1755-1819); Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sixth Regiment 
of the Virginia Line; Delegate in the Convention of Vir- 
ginia in 1788 and member of Committee appointed to recom- 
mend amendments to the Constitution of the United States. 



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Admitted Died 

Cephas Hempstone Sinclair. 
June 3, 1895. May 16, 1920. 

Civil Engineer. 

Great great-grandson of Seneas Campbell; Captain in 
the Flying Camp of the First Maryland Battalion under 
Brigadier-General Regin Beall. 

Randolph Harrison McKim. 
January 26, 1891. July 15, 1920. 

Clergyman. 

Great-great-grandson of Colonel Archibald Cary; Presi- 
dent of the Virginia Committee of Safety; reported to the 
Virginia Convention of 1776 the resolutions instructing the 
Virginia delegates in Congress to propose to that body to 
declare the United Colonies free and independent States. 

"The greatest presbyter in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 
America" is dead. Rich with accumulated years of earnest and 
faithful work, richer with the knowledge that had ripened into wisdom 
and which he knew so well how to use ; and richest of all in his splen- 
did faith in that Christianity, which he always so aggressively de- 
fended, he has gone to his well-deserved and well-earned reward. 

Randolph Harrison McKim was a native of Maryland and was 
born on April 15, 1842, in Baltimore, in which city his boyhood 
studies were made. He came to early manhood in the strenuous days 
that preceded the Civil War, and when that crisis culminated into 
conflict he could not resist his convictions as to what was right and 
gladly left the University of Virginia to enlist on the Southern side, 
fighting valiantly for the Lost Cause and attaining the rank of 
Lieutenant. 

The utter lack of religious opportunity in the Army led him to the 
Church, and he was ordained Deacon by Bishop Johns in Trinity 
Church, Staunton, Virginia, on May 11, 1864, and he was advanced 
to the Priesthood by the same Bishop on May 26, 1866. 

His first service was as assistant in Emmanuel Church, Baltimore, 
in 1865, which was followed by a year's charge of St. John's in Ports- 
mouth, Virginia, and then he was called to the historic Christ Church 
in Alexandria, Virginia. Eight years later he accepted the rectorship 
of Holy Trinity in Harlem, New York, whence, after eleven years 
of faithful service in the great metropolis, he went for two years as 
rector of Trinity Church in New Orleans, Louisiana. His vigorous 
ministry in these various parishes was valuable and important. His 
impress upon their development was most forceful and can never be 
forgotten. His mission was always an uplifting one. 




RANDOLPH HARRISON McKIM 

rector of epiphany church 

Past President (1912-13) Chaplain (1913-20) 



BORN APRIL 15, 1842 — DIED JULY 15, 1920 



SONS OF THE REVOLUTION 193 

In 1889 he was called to Epiphany in Washington, and to its 
work the glorious days that remained of his life were given. The 
spiritual benefits conferred upon the members of his congregation are 
sacred and are safe between him and his God. Of the many material 
improvements during the last thirty-one years that are due to his 
superior judgment there may be mentioned the restoration of the 
Church with its splendid chancel in which beauty and dignity are so 
exquisitely blended, the creation of an endowment that will yield an 
ample income to preserve the sacred building as a down-town Church, 
and finally, the giving of God's service to the public by making the 
pews free. Few men have done as much or as well for their parishes 
as did the Rector of Epiphany. 

He made his influence felt in no uncertain way in the affairs of the 
Diocese; for he was long a member of the Standing Committee and 
its honored Chairman for seventeen years, in which capacity he was 
the acting head of the Diocese during the interim between the death 
of Bishop Satterlee and the consecration of Bishop Harding. 

To the National Cathedral he gave loyal support, being a member 
of the Chapter and its senior Canon. Likewise he served with fidelity 
on the boards of the various institutions of the Church, such as the 
Epiphany Church Home, the Lenthall Home for Widows, the Epis- 
copal Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, and King Hall. 

For forty years he served as a deputy in Triennial General Con- 
ventions and was elected three times President of the House of 
Deputies, presiding at the Conventions held in Boston in 1904, in 
Richmond in 1907, and in Cincinnati in 1910. Dioceses sought him 
for their bishop, but he was loyal to Washington and declined prefer- 
ment elsewhere. He was the leading candidate for the Bishopric of 
Washington at the conventions that elected its first and second Bishops, 
and failed of success in both Conventions by a very small number of 
votes. 

The militant spirit of Doctor McKim was perhaps shown best by 
the courage he manifested in the expression of his opinions. Few 
topics of current importance ever escaped him and he was quick always 
to share his judgments with his friends. Those who listened to him 
in his own Church will recall his periodical sermons on the great 
questions in politics and those on patriotism which he delivered on 
Washington's Birthday and similar occasions. The readers of the 
Church papers will miss his pointed articles on such controversial 
subjects as the change of the name of the Church, the divorce evil, 
and the marriage question, which so frequently came from his ever- 
ready and trenchant pen ; and his newspaper contributions on every- 
day affairs, such as the proper observance of the Sabbath, were preg- 
nant with wise counsel. Nor should his historical orations be for- 
gotten, conspicuous among which was one on the "Tercentenary of 
English Civilization in America," which he delivered at Jamestown 
in 1907. 



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Descended from worthy Colonial and Revolutionary ancestors, he 
honored his forebears by membership in the Society of Colonial Wars 
and in the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, being almost con- 
tinuously Chaplain of the latter from 1892 until his death, and its 
president during 1912-13. He was also Chaplain-General of the 
General Society for three years, yielding that high office on the com- 
pletion of his term to Bishop Tuttle. The Church services of the 
District of Columbia Society were largely under his guidance, and in 
the details of their management he was an active and valued adviser. 
Doctor McKim was a member of the order of the Runnemede, and 
an honorary vice-president of the Navy League, at the meetings of 
which he officiated as Chaplain. 

Honors came to him and were gladly received. Washington and 
Lee — names ever dear to him — conferred upon him the degree of D.D. 
in 1871 ; George Washington gave him her highest recognition, that of 
LL.D., in 1904; and the University of the South bestowed the laurel 
of her D.C.L. upon him in 1908. To these may be added the honor 
of an election as Dean of the Theological Seminary in Virginia in 
1897. 

His last important service to the Church was his whole-hearted 
activity in the Healing Mission conducted under the auspices of Mr. 
James M. Hickson. With characteristic promptness, Epiphany 
undertook to continue the work so satisfactorily begun by Mr. Hick- 
son, and to it Doctor McKim gave himself with his usual fervor, and 
his faith made the Mission a success. Those who were benefited by 
the laying on of healing hands will live to call him "Blessed." 

He had gone for a much needed vacation to Bedford Springs, 
Pennsylvania, where it was hoped he would soon regain his usual 
strength, but of a sudden, on July 15, the end came, and the peace 
that passeth all understanding was his. 

Long silken purple streamers over the doorway of old Epiphany 
in the heart of the business section of Washington, told of the parish 
bereavement at the loss of its beloved rector, while within the Church 
arrangements were being made for the funeral. 

Clergy of every creed, civic leaders, educators, and citizens generally 
joined in a last tribute of grief and sympathy with Epiphany Church 
on Monday, July 19. 

In the early afternoon of Saturday the vestry of the Church and 
the two assistant ministers, the Rev. Messrs. Hall and Browning, 
went to the station to meet Mrs. McKim, the bereaved widow, and 
the clergyman's body which was taken to his residence on K street 
where it remained until Monday morning. 

The service itself was held at two o'clock, but during the morning 
the body of Doctor McKim, robed in full Church vestments, rested 
in the chancel where more than a thousand persons passed by to do 
homage to his remains as they lay in state. 



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At the appointed hour the clergy of the Diocese marched into the 
Church while the choir sang "The Strife is O'er," the opening 
sentences of the burial service were recited by the Rev. Dr. S. A. 
Wallis of the Virginia Theological Seminary, after which the Lesson 
was read by the Rev. Percy F. Hall who was assisted in the service 
by the Rev. Robert E. Browning. "Jerusalem, the Golden," also a 
favorite hymn of Doctor McKim's was sung and then the final 
Prayers and Benediction were said by the Rt. Rev. Robert C. Jett 
of the new Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. The Recessional was 
"Hark, Hark, My Soul." 

The honorary pallbearers were members of the Standing Com- 
mittee of the Diocese and the Chapter of the National Cathedral of 
S.S. Peter and Paul, while the active pallbearers were the members 
of the vestry of Epiphany. At the end of the burial service the 
funeral cortege went to Baltimore by motor where the interment 
was made in Greenmount Cemetery. The Committal service was 
recited by Rev. E. H. Ingle, the assistant ministers, and the Rev. 
A. J. Torrey. 

The funeral was impressive and dignified, and the triumphant 
character of the hymns sung by the choir tended to soften the sadness 
of the mourners, while the flags of the Society of the Sons of the 
Revolution, with crepe streamers, added a touch of color to a most 
beautiful service. 

A bereaved widow, Mrs. Annie M. C. McKim, and two daughters, 
Mrs. Katharine L. Rathbone, of Florence, Italy, and Miss Eleanor 
McKim, of Denver, Colorado, mourn their very great loss, but they 
will have comfort and consolation in the knowledge that his fellow 
churchmen and friends share their sorrow with them. 

"After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well," while the light everlast- 
ing is shining on him. 

Marcus Benjamin. 




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